Afternoon Red Sox Delight – 7/30

Max Scherzer (L), Clay Buchholz (R)

After taking two-of-three in the Bronx, the Boston Red Sox return home to historic Fenway Park for a 10-game homestand. Tonight, they’ll kick it off with the first game of a three-game set with the Detroit Tigers.

First pitch is scheduled for 7:10 p.m. and will be broadcast nationally on NESN in the Red Sox television market. If you live in the Tigers television market, you can catch the game on FOX Sports Detroit. If you can’t catch the television broadcast, you can always listen to it on the Red Sox radio network.

Clay Buchholz looks to keep the good times rolling in his 18th start of 2012. In his previous 17 starts, Buchholz is 8-3 with a 4.93 ERA. He has faced the Tigers once this year and picked up a no decision back on April 8th after allowing seven runs in four innings of work. Buchholz has made seven career starts against Detroit and is 1-1 with a 3.83 ERA. Three of those starts have come at the Fens where he is 0-1 with a 0.82 ERA (2 ER/22 IP).

Max Scherzer steps on the slab for the 21st time in 2012. In his previous 20 starts, Scherzer is 10-5 with a 4.49 ERA. He’s made two starts against the Red Sox in 2012 and is 1-0 with a 10.38 ERA (10 ER/8.2 IP). Scherzer has made five career starts against the local nine and is 1-2 with a 9.82 ERA. Two of those starts have come at the Fens where he is 1-0 with a 2.92 ERA (4 ER/12.1 IP).

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Here are today’s lineups:

54-48		51-51
1. Austin Jackson	CF	1. Jacoby Ellsbury	CF
2. Quintin Berry	LF	2. Carl Crawford	LF
3. Miguel Cabrera	3B	3. Dustin Pedroia	2B
4. Prince Fielder	1B	4. Adrian Gonzalez	1B
5. Delmon Young	DH	5. Will Middlebrooks	3B
6. Brennan Boesch	RF	6. Jarrod Saltalamacchia	C
7. Jhonny Peralta	SS	7. Ryan Sweeney	RF
8. Alex Avila	C	8. Kelly Shoppach	C
9. Omar Infante	2B	9. Pedro Ciriaco	SS
Max Scherzer	SP	Clay Buchholz	SP