Afternoon Red Sox Delight – 8/3

Carlos Carrasco (L), Tim Wakefield (R)

After a walkoff win last night, the Boston Red Sox try to do it again the more conventional way in game three of a four-game set with the Cleveland Indians tonight at Historic Fenway Park.

Today’s first pitch is scheduled for 7:10 p.m. and the game will be broadcast in the Red Sox television market on NESN. If you live in the Indians television market, you can watch the game on SportsTime Ohio (STO). And if you can’t catch the television broadcast, you can always listen to the game on the 2011 Red Sox Radio Network.

Tim Wakefield looks to give himself a nice day late 45th birthday present as he goes for his 200th career win in his 15th start (24th appearance) in 2011. In his previous 23 appearances (14 starts), Wake is 6-4 with a 5.06 ERA. He’s made one appearance this year against the Tribe and that came out of the bullpen back on April 6th. In that relief effort, he allowed one run in two innings of work. He’s made 30 career appearances (23 starts) against the Indians and is 12-8 with a 4.05 ERA. 15 of those appearances (10 starts) have come at the Fens where he is 6-4 with a 4.26 ERA.

Carlos Carrasco will make his final start before dropping an appeal of a six-game suspension he received from his last outing. He’s made 21 starts in 2011 and is 8-9 with a 4.67 ERA. He has not faced the Red Sox this season. As a matter of fact, he’s only made one career start against the Red Sox back on October 1, 2009 at Fenway Park. In that start, he took the loss after allowing three runs on nine hits in 3.1 innings. He left that start after being hit in the forearm by a Jacoby Ellsbury line drive.

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Here are this evening’s lineups:

54-53		67-41
1. Ezequiel Carrera	CF	1. Jacoby Ellsbury	CF
2. Jason Kipnis	2B	2. Dustin Pedroia	2B
3. Asdrubal Cabrera	SS	3. Adrian Gonzalez	1B
4. Travis Hafner	DH	4. Kevin Youkilis	3B
5. Carlos Santana	1B	5. David Ortiz	DH
6. Kosuke Fukudome	RF	6. Carl Crawford	LF
7. Lonnie Chisenhall	3B	7. Jarrod Saltalamacchia	C
8. Austin Kearns	LF	8. Josh Reddick	RF
9. Lou Marson	C	9. Marco Scutaro	SS
Carlos Carrasco	SP	Tim Wakefield	SP