Afternoon Red Sox Delight – 8/3

Brian Duensing (L), Felix Doubront (R)

After being shutout 5-0 last night, the Boston Red Sox look to even up the series in the second game of a four-game set with the Minnesota Twins at historic Fenway Park.

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

Felix Doubront takes the hill for the 21st time in 2012. In his previous 20 starts, Doubront is 10-5 with a 4.37 ERA. Tonight will mark the first time Doubront has faced the Twins in his career.

Brian Duensing makes just his sixth start (39th appearance though) this season for the Twins. In his previous 38 appearances (five starts), Duensing is 2-6 with a 4.53 ERA. He’s made one appearance against the Red Sox this season and retired the only two batters he faced back on April 23rd. He’s made four career appearances (one start) against the local nine and is 0-1 with a 3.60 ERA (2 ER/5 IP). Two of those apperances have come at the Fens where he has no record with a 5.40 ERA (1 ER/1.2 IP).

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Here are today’s lineups:

45-60		53-53
1. Denard Span	CF	1. Jacoby Ellsbury	CF
2. Ben Revere	RF	2. Dustin Pedroia	2B
3. Joe Mauer	C	3. Cody Ross	RF
4. Josh Willingham	DH	4. Adrian Gonzalez	1B
5. Justin Morneau	1B	5. Ryan Lavarnway	DH
6. Danny Valencia	3B	6. Will Middlebrooks	3B
7. Darin Mastroianni	LF	7. Carl Crawford	LF
8. Brian Dozier	SS	8. Kelly Shoppach	C
9. Jamey Carroll	2B	9. Mike Aviles	SS
Brian Duensing	SP	Felix Doubront	SP