Boston Red Sox (27-38, fifth in the AL East) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (39-25, first in the AL East)<\/p>\n
St. Petersburg, Florida; Wednesday, 1:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Red Sox: Jake Bennett (0-0); Rays: Drew Rasmussen (5-2, 3.00 ERA, 0.92 WHIP, 64 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Rays -152, Red Sox +127; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Red Sox visit the Tampa Bay Rays looking to break a three-game road skid.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay has a 39-25 record overall and a 23-9 record in home games. Rays hitters are batting a collective .256, the fourth-best team batting average in MLB play.<\/p>\n
Boston has a 17-17 record in road games and a 27-38 record overall. The Red Sox have the ninth-best team ERA in the majors at 3.88.<\/p>\n
Wednesday’s game is the sixth meeting between these teams this season. The Rays have a 4-1 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Yandy Diaz has 11 doubles, a triple, 12 home runs and 44 RBIs for the Rays. Jonathan Aranda is 7 for 37 with two home runs and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Willson Contreras has nine doubles, two triples and 13 home runs while hitting .288 for the Red Sox. Jarren Duran is 8 for 42 with a triple and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 4-6, .223 batting average, 5.32 ERA, outscored by 17 runs<\/p>\n
Red Sox: 4-6, .246 batting average, 3.98 ERA, outscored opponents by five runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Rays: Jon Heasley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Michael Grove: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Craig Kimbrel: 15-Day IL (wrist), Manuel Rodriguez: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jonny Deluca: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Steven Wilson: 60-Day IL (back), Gavin Lux: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jesse Scholtens: 15-Day IL (wrist), Jake Fraley: 10-Day IL (groin), Ryan Pepiot: 60-Day IL (hip), Edwin Uceta: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n
Red Sox: Jovani Moran: 15-Day IL (elbow), Garrett Crochet: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Trevor Story: 60-Day IL (abdomen), Nick Sogard: 10-Day IL (oblique), Kutter Crawford: 60-Day IL (wrist), Romy Gonzalez: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Triston Casas: 60-Day IL (knee), Willson Contreras: day-to-day (wrist), Roman Anthony: 10-Day IL (wrist), Patrick Sandoval: 60-Day IL (elbow), Johan Oviedo: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tanner Houck: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":"Boston Red Sox (27-38, fifth in the AL East) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (39-25, first in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[129349,112374,129348,2724,10482,363,99],"class_list":["post-695549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-app-around-maine","tag-app-in-the-community","tag-around-maine-more-maine-news","tag-associated-press","tag-maine","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}