Afternoon Red Sox Delight – 7/9

Alfredo Simon (L), John Lackey (R)

After some fireworks on the field in the second straight win for the Boston Red Sox over the Baltimore Orioles last night, they’ll try to make in three wins in a row tonight at Fenway Park in game three of a four-game set.

Tonight’s first pitch is scheduled for 7:10 p.m. and you can watch the game on NESN in the Red Sox television market. If you live in the Orioles television market, you can catch the game on MASN. If you don’t live in either market you may be in luck as well as the MLB Network is scheduled to air the game in certain markets. And if you can’t catch the television broadcast, you can always listen to the game on the 2011 Red Sox Radio Network.

John Lackey desperately looks to get back on track in his 14th start of 2011. In his previous 13 starts, Lackey is 5-8 with a 7.47 ERA. He has not faced the Orioles in 2011 and was 2-1 with a 2.80 ERA in five starts in 2010 which marks all of his appearances against them in a Red Sox uniform. He’s made 17 starts against the Orioles in his career and is 10-4 with a 3.05 ERA. He’s made 14 straight quality starts against the Orioles and in the last 13 games against them, he’s gone at least seven innings.

Alfredo Simon looks to stop the bleeding for the Orioles in his first start (8th appearance) of 2011. In his previous seven appearances out of the bullpen, Simon is 1-1 with a 4.64 ERA. He’s made six career appearances against the Red Sox and has no record with a 5.40 ERA (3 ER/5 IP). Two of those appearances have come at Fenway Park where he hasn’t allowed a run (just two walks and a strikeout) in 0.1 innings. This is Simon’s first start in two years for the Orioles.

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Here are this evening’s lineups:

36-50		53-35
1. J.J. Hardy	SS	1. Jacoby Ellsbury	CF
2. Nick Markakis	RF	2. Dustin Pedroia	2B
3. Adam Jones	CF	3. Adrian Gonzalez	1B
4. Vladimir Guerrero	DH	4. Kevin Youkilis	3B
5. Matt Wieters	C	5. David Ortiz	DH
6. Derek Lee	1B	6. Josh Reddick	LF
7. Mark Reynolds	3B	7. Jarrod Saltalamacchia	C
8. Nolan Reimold	LF	8. J. D. Drew	RF
9. Robert Andino	SS	9. Marco Scutaro	SS
Alfredo Simon	SP	John Lackey	SP