Tonight at 7:10 p.m. ET, the Tampa Bay Rays (11-15) and Boston Red Sox (12-14) take the field at Fenway Park for Game 1 of a three-game set live from Boston. The game can be live streamed here. Tampa Bay fans can hear all of the action on WDAE 620 while Boston fans can do the same on WEEI 98.7.
The Rays continue their 10-game road trip after losing three of four from the Chicago White Sox and have lost five of six and two in a row overall while the Red Sox open up an eight-game homestand after taking two of three games from the Toronto Blue Jays on a short road trip.
Erik Bedard (0-1, 7.45 ERA) takes the mound for Tampa Bay while John Lackey (3-2 4.22 ERA) toes the rubber for Boston.
Lackey's last start occurred last Wednesday when he struck out 11 members of the New York Yankees in eight innings while yielding just one run.
"I was thinking about trying to give the bullpen a rest," Lackey said per MLB.com. "We've got some guys down there who've been worked pretty good the last week or so, and trying to get those guys a little bit of a breather and win a ballgame."
Tampa Bay is coming off of a rough outing where he lasted just four innings in a 9-7 loss to the Minnesota Twins.
"I couldn't really throw strikes in the first inning," Bedard said via MLB.com. "I was just trying to battle and throw it in the strike zone, but I had a couple of walks in the first and I got better as the game progressed."
Rays second baseman Ben Zobrist has 11 multi-hit games and 16 walks this season while third baseman Evan Longoria is hitting .323 (10-for-31) with two homers and five RBIs lifetime against Lackey.
Red Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski is hitting .429 (9-for-21) against Bedard in his career while first baseman Mike Napoli is hitting cleanup for Boston with a Red Sox-best .304 (28-for-92) batting average, five homers and 15 RBIs.
The Rays and Red Sox take the field this afternoon for Game 1 of their three-game series live from Fenway Park in Boston.
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