Red Sox Line UP Against Blue Jays 4/17/2011

Jon Lester is on the mound looking for his first win of the season and hoping to get the teams first back to back win of the year. Lester will being up against Jesse Litsch who is 1-0 with a 2.38 ERA.

Lines ups

Red Sox (3-10)

LF Crawford

2B Pedroia

1B Gonzalez

3B Youkilis

DH Ortiz

SS Lowrie

RF Drew

C Saltalamacchia

CF Ellsbury

Blue Jays (7-7)

SS Escobar

CF Patterson

RF Bautista

1B Lind

2B Hill

C Arencibia

DH Snider

LF Rivera
3B Nix

Lowrie Walks Around Like He's Got an S On His Chest

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For anyone who was wondering if Josh Beckett is back, today he proved he is back for sure. He didn’t have a 10 strike out game like last week but if you recall from my line up post all I wanted was a win. He did pitch damn close to his performance against the Yankees. Beckett lead the Red Sox to a 4-1 win.

Beckett went seven innings allowing one run in the second inning and gave up five hits while striking out nine. See I told you it was close to Sunday. He was mixing his pitches similar to last Sunday and is pitching like we got our ace back for 2011.

With Carl Crawford struggling so bad in the leadoff role Tito gave him the day off and had Superman Jed Lowrie the go. Lowrie played the super hero role today went 3-for-5 with two RBI and a homerun. Lowrie was the spark that the team needed to get the win today.

The Red Sox are still struggling hitting with men on base even leaving the bases full at one point in the game.

Dustin Pedroia continued his hitting at Fenway with another hit but he is most credited for his defense today also got some amazing defensive play from Adrain Gonazlez to show why both guys have won a Gold Glove in the past.

Bullpen help today was great as Daniel Bard pitched a scoreless eighth and Jonathan Papelbon got his second save on the season.

Now that the Red Sox finally have their third win the next step is to pick up the first back to back win of the season. Oh yeah, they also need to make Jed Lowrie a permant member of the line up in the leadoff spot seeing he is the only guy on the team hitting .500 on the team with 22 at bats under his belt on the season. I mean if it doesn’t work out its not different than the Crawford experiment that has been a failure. So if Tito is reading make you give it a try.

Red Sox Line UP Against Blue Jays 4/16/2011

After last night it looks as if the Red Sox are trying a new approach to the line up with a new person in the lead off spot and everything. Josh Beckett is on the mound today for the Red Sox and Jason Varitek will be catching him again. As we know from Sunday night when Varitek catches Beckett good things happen so hopefully we can get another outing simular to his most recent 10 strike out game. Now I'm not asking for 10 strike outs, I really just want a win no matter how it comes. Going against Beckett for the Blue Jays will be the lefty Jo-Jo Reyes. Reyes is appeared in two games this season with a 0-1 record and a 5.23 ERA in 10.1 innings of work with nine strike outs.

Line ups

Red Sox

SS Lowrie
2B Pedroia

1B Gonzalez

3B Youkilis

DH Ortiz

RF Cameron

C Varitek

LF McDonald

CF Ellsbury

Blue Jays

SS Escobar
CF Patterson
RF Baustista
1B Lind
2B Hill
LF Snider
DH Nix
C Molina
3B McDonald

Week Two American League Standings

It breaks my heart to do this but as a journalist I must present to you with the week 2 American League standings where the Red Sox are in the basement.

Week One American League Standings