Red Sox 07 Game 34

Friday,May 11                                                                    Fenway Park |  7:05 PM ET

BAL Brian Burres, LHP (0-1, 3.71) Orioles (17-18) @ BOS Julian Tavarez, RHP (1-3, 6.48) Red Sox (23-10)

Red Sox are 2 and 0 vs Baltimore this year.

AL East Standings

Team	W	L	GB	L 10	Exp W	Exp L
Boston	23	10	-	8 - 2	23	10
Baltimore	17	18	7	5 - 5	17	18
New York	16	17	7	7 - 3	18	15
Tampa Bay	14	20	9.5	4 - 6	12	22
Toronto	13	21	10.5	1 - 9	15	19

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From MLB.Com Scouting Report

Red Sox: For someone who was last a regular starter in 2002, Tavarez has done a serviceable job in his last two starts. He beat the Yankees on April 29 in the Bronx by allowing only Doug Mientkiewicz's three-run homer in five innings, then came back with a quality start against the Twins and Johan Santana on Saturday night at the Metrodome (two runs in six innings with seven strikeouts). In 13 career appearances against the Orioles, the 33-year-old Tavarez is 2-2 with a 4.05 ERA.

Orioles: Burres got knocked out in the fourth inning of his first big-league start, but he still appears to be on line to make a second. The southpaw was Baltimore's first contingency plan to replace injured starter Adam Loewen, who will be out for the foreseeable future. Burres gave up seven hits and five earned runs in his first start, but there aren't many other options within the organization. If he stumbles again, he may go back to the bullpen.

As usual all statistics were found at the day by day database at Baseball Musings and this year at Baseball Reference.

Expected Batters vs opposing starter

Player	AB	Hits	2b	3b	HR's	RBI	BB's	K's	BA
J.Lugo	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
K. Youkilis	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
D.Ortiz	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500
M.Ramirez	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
J.D.Drew	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
M.Lowell	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
J.Varitek	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
C. Crisp	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
D. Pedroia	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
Totals	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250

Not a lot of history vs Burres. He has never made a start vs the Sox so all of these stats are as a relief pitcher. He is a LHP, so, the Sox could struggle.

Historical Pitching line

Pitcher	GS	W	L	Sho	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA
Burress	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	3	0.00
Tavarez	2	2	2	0	20	21	9	2	9	16	4.05

Tavarez has only made 2 starts vs the Orioles. One of those was last year in Sept. He went 5-6-2-1-5-0 earning the win. The team is 2 and 3 in Tavarez's starts this year. This will be the first time in 2 weeks that Tavarez will not be facing the other teams Ace.

Sox are 4 and 1 on Friday's this year.
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