Afternoon Red Sox Delight – 8/25

Andrew Miller (L), Alexi Ogando (R)

After another rout last night, the Boston Red Sox look to avoid a split of their four-game series in the finale tonight against the Texas Rangers at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.

Today’s first pitch is scheduled for 8:05 p.m. and will be broadcast in the Red Sox television market on NESN. If you live in the Rangers broadcast area, you can catch the game on Fox Sports Southwest. If you don’t live in either market, you may be in luck as the MLB Network is also scheduled to have coverage of tonight’s game. And if you can’t catch the television broadcast, you can always listen to the game on the 2011 Red Sox Radio Network.

Andrew Miller will toe the slab tonight for the Red Sox in his 10th start (12th appearance) of the season. In his previous 11 appearances (nine starts), Miller is 5-1 with a 4.99 ERA. He has not faced the Rangers this season. In fact, he’s only made one career apperance against them and that was back in 2006 when he was a member of the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park.

Alexi Ogando makes his 25th start as he looks to help his team to a split of the four-game set. In his previous 24 starts, Ogando is 12-5 with a 3.30 ERA. He has not faced the Red Sox this year. He has made four career appearances against them though. All of those came in 2010 out of the bullpen in which he was 0-1 with a 2.08 ERA (1 ER/4.1 IP).

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Here are this evening’s lineups:

79-50		74-57
1. Jacoby Ellsbury	CF	1. Ian Kinsler	2B
2. Jed Lowrie	3B	2. Elvis Andrus	SS
3. Adrian Gonzalez	1B	3. Josh Hamilton	LF
4. Dustin Pedroia	2B	4. Michael Young	DH
5. David Ortiz	DH	5. Nelson Cruz	RF
6. Carl Crawford	LF	6. Mike Napoli	1B
7. Jarrod Saltalamacchia	C	7. Yorvit Torrealba	C
8. Josh Reddick	RF	8. Craig Gentry	CF
9. Marco Scutaro	SS	9. Omar Quintanilla	2B
Andrew Miller	SP	Alexi Ogando	SP