It's off to fabled Fenway Park, the "legendary home of the Red Sox. " Honest, that's according to Google Maps. Gotta be true.
The Red Sox have given up, of course. Jake Peavy is back in California, pitching in the National League. Other organizations are sniffing at the corpse, wondering if Jon Lester can be extracted. (In a perfect world, this would actually happen before Wednesday. The guy's having outstanding year, it would be nice not to see him.)
Anyway, the technical term for all of this is "Good Times."
Matchups!
Dickey (8-10, 4.04) vs Buchholz (5-6, 5.50)
Stroman (6-2, 3.21) vs De La Rosa (3-3, 3.54)
Buehrle (10-7, 3.19) vs Lester (10-7, 2.52)
This and That... As a starter, Stroman is 5-2, 2.21 with a 55-14 K-W ratio. That's... pretty good. He's never pitched in Fenway, as you might expect. But Mark Buehrle is 5-3 in 11 career starts at Fenway, and as a Blue Jay, he's 2-0, 2.77 in 4 starts in Boston. Yeah, surprised me too. Meanwhile, Dickey has only started here once (a CG loss last September.)
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