After winning 5-3 yesterday on a walk-off home run over the Miami Marlins, the Boston Red Sox head north to Tampa, FL for a matchup with their AL East rivals, the New York Yankees.
The first pitch today is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. and the game will be broadcast on MLB Network in the Red Sox television market as well as most of the United States. You can also listen to the game on WEEI 93.7 FM/850 AM if your radio dial picks that up. If you live in the Yankees television market, you can watch the game on YES.
Here are tonights’s lineups:
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| 1. Mike Aviles | SS | 1. Brett Gardner | CF |
| 2. Dustin Pedroia | 2B | 2. Russell Martin | C |
| 3. Jacoby Ellsbury | DH | 3. Alex Rodriguez | 3B |
| 4. Jarrod Saltalamacchia | C | 4. Mark Teixeira | 1B |
| 5. Will Middlebrooks | 3B | 5. Raul Ibanez | DH |
| 6. Lars Anderson | 1B | 6. Andruw Jones | RF |
| 7. Juan Carlos Linares | CF | 7. Eduardo Nunez | SS |
| 8. Josh Kroeger | RF | 8. Bill Hall | 2B |
| 9. Alex Hassan | LF | 9. Jayson Nix | LF |
| Felix Doubront | SP | Ivan Nova | SP |
Doubront will be followed by RHP Michael Bowden, RHP Vicente Padilla, RHP Junichi Tazawa, RHP Brandon Duckworth, RHP Will Inman.
Nova will be followed Mariano Rivera and Boone Logan.
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Reggie Jackson: Varitek is no A-Rod [CSN New England]
Kevin Youkilis Looks ‘Like a Totally Different Guy This Spring,’ Poised to Bounce Back for Red Sox [Don Orsillo – NESN.com]
Projecting the Opening Day roster, 1.0 [Extra Bases]
Inning-by-inning on Clay Buchholz [Extra Bases]
Plenty of rings to go around [Extra Bases]
Buchholz works in minor-league game [Projo Sox Blog]
For more slices of Red Sox goodness, head over to the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, CSN New England, ESPN Boston, NESN, Providence Journal, RedSox.com and WEEI websites.
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