The Red Sox are going for the sweep tonight over the Twins, as Buchholz will try to right the ship against 23-year-old Liam Hendriks. This will be Hendriks first start against Boston in his career, which isn't all that shocking since this is only his 7th career start. He has yet to win a start yet in his young career, but has pitched decently in his 2 starts this year going a total of 11 2/3 innings allowing 5 ERs. Still, this is yet another pitcher that the Twins throw out there that is a righty and not overly impressive. That should mean Boston puts some serious runs on the board again tonight.
This has been a horrid start of the season for Clay Buchholz. He is 1-1 with a 9.00 ERA. He has let up at least 5 ERs in each of his 3 starts. If you want to try to stay positive this is a guy who missed the whole 2nd half of last year, and has had to go against 3 very good offense so far (Yankees, Rays, Tigers), so maybe this is just him shaking off some rust.
It would be really nice to see Buchholz have a night where he goes 6-7 innings allowing no more than 3 runs. Just something to build on, and give the Red Sox a little more confidence that he can turn back into the pitcher he once was.
I think the Red Sox offense is rolling, I think they pitcher they are going against is subpar, and I think the Twins lineup is poor. This will be the last time the Red Sox play the Twins until August, which is too bad.
Red Sox win 9-4
Player of the Game: Ortiz
Game starts at 8:10pm
Sox Lineup:
Mike Aviles SS
Ryan Sweeney RF
Dustin Pedroia 2B
Adrian Gonzalez 1B
David Ortiz DH
Kevin Youkilis 3B
Jarrod Saltalamacchia C
Cody Ross LF
Marlon Byrd CF
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