Round 6 of 18 begins tonight, weather permitting of course, between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees at Fenway Park. The Red Sox have taken the first 5 rounds so far in 2009.

The game tonight will start at 7:10 PM EDT and will be televised in the Red Sox television market on NESN. If you live in the Yankees television market, you can catch the game on MY9. And if the television isn’t your cup of tea, you can catch the game on one of the many affiliates of the Red Sox Radio Network.

Commander KickA$$ Josh Beckett is back and he looks to get the Red Sox back into first place tonight. In eleven starts this season, Beckett is 6-2 with a 4.09 ERA. He’s made two starts against the Yanks this year and is 1-0 with a 9.00 ERA (11 ER in 11 innings). Beckett has made fourteen career starts against the Yankees and is 8-4 with a 5.80 ERA.

A.J. Burnett has been a Red Sox killer in his career but got hit hard his last time out against the Red Sox. In that outing he gave up 8 runs on 8 hits in a game the Red Sox ended up winning 16-11. Burnett has made eleven starts this season and is 4-2 with a 4.69 ERA. In nine career starts against the Red Sox, he is 5-0 with a 3.52 ERA. Burnett is 3-0 with a 2.93 ERA in four starts at the Fens.

Here’s the weather update from the Red Sox from earlier this afternoon.

The current forecast in the vicinity of Fenway Park calls for the possibility of scattered light showers during the late afternoon and evening.

The gates will open at the regularly scheduled time of 5:10 p.m., and the Sox are hopeful that tonight’s game, scheduled to start at 7:10 p.m., will go off on time.

Tarp on; Ellsbury out; Lowrie closer [Extra Bases]

Beckett’s back [Extra Bases]

Theo’s favorite pick [Extra Bases]

Red Sox scheduled to make three draft picks tonight [Projo Sox Blog]

Ellsbury out against Yankees with bruised shoulder [Projo Sox Blog]

BP stopped, Tarp being put on the field [Projo Sox Blog]

Lowrie closer to a minor-league rehab assignment [Projo Sox Blog]

Drew back in the lineup [Projo Sox Blog]

Buchholz Remains Patient While Stuck in the Minors [Full Count]

State of the Sox: It’s Good to Hate the Yankees Again [Lou Merloni - Wicked Good Sports]

The day I became a pro baseball player [38 Pitches]

A missed mark [Tony Massarotti]

Yankees-Red Sox Preview: Plenty Different Since Last Meeting [Hartford Courant]

Pitcher Results On Fastballs – First In A Series [Nuggetpalooza]

Showcasing Fenway [Fenway West]

Jim Nantz to Throw Out 1st Pitch at Fenway Park [Fang's Bites]

Here are the lineups for tonight’s game:

And here are how the hitters have fared against tonight’s starting pitchers: