Afternoon Red Sox Delight – 4/25

Clay Buchholz (L), Liam Hendriks (R)

After winning for the second straight game last night, the Boston Red Sox go for the sweep of the Minnesota Twins tonight in the finale of a three-game set at Target Field in Minneapolis, MN.

First pitch is scheduled for 8:10 p.m. and the game will be broadcast on NESN Plus in the Red Sox television market. If you live in the Twins television market, you can catch the game on Fox Sports North. If you can’t catch the television broadcast, you can always listen to it on the Red Sox radio network.

Clay Buchholz looks to rebound from his three terrible starts in his fourth start of 2012. In his previous three starts, Buchholz is 1-1 with a 9.00 ERA (17 ER/17 IP). In his only start of 2011 against the Twins back on May 7th, he picked up the win after throwing five scoreless innings. In his career, Buchholz has made three starts and is 2-1 with a 4.67 ERA. Tonight marks his first start at Target Field. In his only appearance at the Metrodome in 2008, he was tagged with the loss after allowing seven earned runs in 4.1 innings of work.

Rookie Liam Hendriks makes his third start of 2012 for the reeling Twins. In his previous two starts, Hendriks has no record with a 3.86 ERA (5 ER/11.2 IP). He has not faced the Red Sox in his short career.

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Here are today’s lineups:

6-10		5-13
1. Mike Aviles	SS	1. Denard Span	CF
2. Ryan Sweeney	2B	2. Jamey Carroll	SS
3. Dustin Pedroia	1B	3. Joe Mauer	C
4. Adrian Gonzalez	3B	4. Justin Morneau	DH
5. David Ortiz	DH	5. Chris Parmelee	1B
6. Kevin Youkilis	3B	6. Trevor Plouffe	RF
7. Jarrod Saltalamacchia	C	7. Sean Burroughs	3B
8. Cody Ross	LF	8. Ben Revere	LF
9. Marlon Byrd	CF	9. Alexi Casilla	2B
Clay Buchholz	SP	Liam Hendriks	SP