Tampa Bay Rays (25-12, second in the AL East) vs. Boston Red Sox (16-22, fifth in the AL East)<\/p>\n
Boston; Friday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays: Jesse Scholtens (3-1, 3.18 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 17 strikeouts); Red Sox: Connelly Early (2-2, 3.79 ERA, 1.32 WHIP, 31 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Red Sox -143, Rays +121; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Red Sox look to break their three-game home losing streak with a win over the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n
Boston has a 16-22 record overall and a 6-11 record at home. The Red Sox have an 11-4 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay is 11-8 on the road and 25-12 overall. Rays pitchers have a collective 3.54 ERA, which ranks second in the AL.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Friday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Willson Contreras has four doubles, eight home runs and 23 RBIs while hitting .263 for the Red Sox. Ceddanne Rafaela is 11 for 39 with a double, a triple and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Junior Caminero leads the Rays with 10 home runs while slugging .496. Yandy Diaz is 10 for 35 with two home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Red Sox: 5-5, .247 batting average, 3.34 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n
Rays: 9-1, .255 batting average, 1.30 ERA, outscored opponents by 20 runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Red Sox: Roman Anthony: 10-Day IL (wrist), Danny Coulombe: 15-Day IL (cervical spasms), Patrick Sandoval: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ranger Suarez: day-to-day (hamstring), Justin Slaten: 15-Day IL (oblique), Garrett Crochet: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Kutter Crawford: 15-Day IL (wrist), Triston Casas: 60-Day IL (knee), Johan Oviedo: 60-Day IL (elbow), Romy Gonzalez: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Tanner Houck: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
Rays: Joe Boyle: 15-Day IL (elbow), Mason Englert: 15-Day IL (forearm), Steven Matz: 15-Day IL (elbow), Gavin Lux: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Ryan Pepiot: 60-Day IL (hip), Edwin Uceta: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Steven Wilson: 60-Day IL (back), Manuel Rodriguez: 60-Day IL (elbow), Michael Grove: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays (25-12, second in the AL East) vs. Boston Red Sox (16-22, fifth in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12202,12204,12201,2205,12203,110,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-263324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-around-maine","tag-app-in-the-community","tag-around-maine-more-maine-news","tag-associated-press","tag-maine","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}