Saturday Red Sox Travesty – 9/15

Clay Buchholz (L), Carlos Villanueva (R)

After winning 8-5 last night, the Boston Red Sox look to make it two in-a-row this afternoon in the middle game of a three-game set in the Battle For the Basement with the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

First pitch is scheduled for 1:07 p.m. and the game will be broadcast on NESN in the Red Sox television market. If you live in the Yankees television market, you can catch the game on Rogers SportsNet and TVA Sports (French broadcast). If you can’t catch the television broadcast, you can always listen to it on the Red Sox radio network.

Clay Buchholz makes his 27th start of 2012 this afternoon. In his previous 26 starts, Buchholz is 11-6 with a 4.46 ERA. He’s made two starts against the Jays this season and is 1-1 with a 3.24 ERA (6 ER/16.2 IP). Buchholz has made 14 career appearances (13 starts) against the Jays and is 8-4 with a 2.71 ERA. Eight of those starts have come at the Rogers Centre where he is 6-2 with a 1.72 ERA.

Carlos Villanueva makes his 14th start (36th appearance) for the Jays. In his previous 35 appearances (13 starts), Villanueva is 7-5 with a 3.48 ERA. He’s made three appearances (two starts) against the Red Sox this season and is 1-0 with a 4.73 ERA. Villanueva has made eight career appearances (three starts) against the Red Sox and is 2-1 with a 4.50 ERA.

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Here are today’s lineups:

64-80		65-77
1. Jacoby Ellsbury	CF	1. Rajai Davis	LF
2. Daniel Nava	LF	2. Brett Lawrie	3B
3. Dustin Pedroia	2B	3. Edwin Encarnacion	DH
4. Cody Ross	RF	4. Adam Lind	1B
5. James Loney	1B	5. Yunel Escobar	SS
6. Jarrod Saltalamacchia	C	6. Kelly Johnson	2B
7. Ryan Lavarnway	DH	7. Yorvit Torrealba	C
8. Mike Aviles	SS	8. Moises Sierra	RF
9. Pedro Ciriaco	3B	9. Anthony Gose	CF
Clay Buchholz	SP	Carlos Villanueva	SP