Afternoon Red Sox Delight – 6/3

Josh Outman (L), Clay Buchholz (R)

After enjoying a day off, the Boston Red Sox will look to put an end to their four-game losing streak in the first game of a three-game set with the Oakland Athletics at Fenway Park tonight.

Tonight’s game will start at 7:10 p.m. and will be televised on NESN in the Red Sox television market. If you live in the A’s television market, you can watch the game on CSN California. And if you can’t catch the television broadcast, you can always listen to the game on the 2011 Red Sox Radio Network.

Clay Buchholz looks to put his last start in the past as he battled through a back issue. He’ll be making his 12th start of 2011 and is 4-3 with a 3.41 ERA on the season. He’s faced the A’s once this season, picking up the win after allowing one run in 5.1 innings back on 4/20. He’s made four career starts against the A’s and is 1-2 with a 7.31 ERA. One of those starts came at the Fens where he picked up a no decision after allowing two runs in 5.2 innings back in 2009.

Josh Outman will make just his third of 2011 since returning from Tommy John surgery in 2009. In his two previous outings this season, Outman is 1-0 with a 2.08 ERA (3 ER/13 IP). This will be his first career appearance against the Red Sox.

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Here are tonight’s lineups:

27-30		30-26
1. Coco Crisp	CF	1. Jacoby Ellsbury	CF
2. David DeJesus	RF	2. Dustin Pedroia	2B
3. Josh Willingham	LF	3. Adrian Gonzalez	1B
4. Hideki Matsui	DH	4. Kevin Youkilis	3B
5. Kurt Suzuki	C	5. David Ortiz	DH
6. Daric Barton	1B	6. Jed Lowrie	SS
7. Mark Ellis	2B	7. Carl Crawford	LF
8. Kevin Kouzmanoff	3B	8. Mike Cameron	RF
9. Cliff Pennington	SS	9. Jarrod Saltalamacchia	C
Josh Outman	SP	Clay Buchholz	SP

And here is how the hitters have fared against this evening’s starting pitchers:

Oakland A's @ Boston Red Sox batter/pitcher matchups

Lefty Tommy Hottovy has been called up to replace Rich Hill who was placed on the 15-day disabled list. Daisuke Matsuzaka was placed on the 60-day DL to clear a spot on the 40-man roster for Hottovy.

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Looking left — again: How might the Red Sox replace Rich Hill? [Clubhouse Insider]

Tommy Hottovy to replace Rich Hill as Red Sox’ lefty reliever [Clubhouse Insider]

Rich Hill: Ligament ‘three-quarters’ torn; Dice-K, Hottovy updates [Clubhouse Insider]

Red Sox call up Tommy Hottovy from Pawtucket [CSNNE.com]

Sox add Hottovy, move Daisuke to 60-day DL [ESPN Boston]

BoSox Club seeking new members and extends luncheon invitation [Extra Bases]

Does Darvish become off-limits now? [Extra Bases]

Hill confirms that surgery is likely [Extra Bases]

Red Sox set rotation for Yankees series [Extra Bases]

Better late than never for Tommy Hottovy [Extra Bases]