Thursday Red Sox Mediocrity – 8/9

Felix Doubront (L), Ubaldo Jimenez (R)

After falling 10-9 yesterday to the Texas Rangers, the Boston Red Sox take to the road for a 10 game, 11 day road trip. They’ll get it started tonight in Cleveland with the first of a four-game set with the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field.

First pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. and will be broadcast on NESN in the Red Sox television market. If you live in the Indians television market, you can catch the game on SportsTime Ohio (STO). And if you don’t live in either market you’re in luck as the MLB Network will coverage of the game (outside of Red Sox and Indians television markets). If you can’t catch the television broadcast, you can always listen to it on the Red Sox radio network.

Felix Doubront takes the bump for the 22nd time in 2012. In his previous 21 starts, Doubront is 10-5 with a 4.56 ERA. His lone career start against the Indians came earlier this season when he picked up the win after allowing one run in six innings of work back on May 12th. This will be his first start at Progressive Field.

Ubaldo Jimenez makes his 23rd start for struggling Indians. In his previous 22 starts, Jimenez is 8-11 with a 5.29 ERA. He took the loss in his only start of 2012 against the Red Sox after allowing seven runs in 4.1 innings of work back on May 11th. Jimenez has made two career starts against the Red Sox and is 0-1 with a 11.70 ERA (13 ER/10 IP).

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Here are today’s lineups:

55-57		51-60
1. Jacoby Ellsbury	CF	1. Jason Donald	2B
2. Carl Crawford	LF	2. Asdrubal Cabrera	SS
3. Dustin Pedroia	DH	3. Shin-Soo Choo	RF
4. Adrian Gonzalez	1B	4. Carlos Santana	DH
5. Cody Ross	RF	5. Michael Brantley	CF
6. Jarrod Saltalamacchia	C	6. Shelley Duncan	LF
7. Will Middlebrooks	3B	7. Brent Lillibridge	3B
8. Mike Aviles	SS	8. Casey Kotchman	1B
9. Pedro Ciriaco	SS	9. Lou Marson	C
Felix Doubront	SP	Ubaldo Jimenez	SP