Red Sox 07 Game 63

Tuesday, June 12    Fenway Park  7:05 PM ET

Aaron Cook, RHP (4-2, 4.54)

Rockies (31-32)

Vs.

Tim Wakefield, RHP (5-7, 4.22)

Red Sox (40-22) 

American League

East	W	L	GB	L 10	X W	X L
Boston	40	22	-	4-6	39	23
New York	30	31	9.5	8-2	35	26
Toronto	30	32	10.0	6-4	31	31
Baltimore	29	34	11.5	3-7	32	31
Tampa Bay	28	33	11.5	6-4	25	36

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Rockies: Cook has typically pitched six innings, while giving up three or four runs, in the majority of his 13 starts this season. But he's been winning -- he's 4-1 in his past seven starts. He allowed five runs on seven hits in six innings against Houston in his last outing, but the Rockies came back to win. Three starts ago, Cook hurled a five-hit complete game in a win over the Giants.

Red Sox: Wakefield was able to corral his knuckleball enough to strike out a season-high eight hitters and walked just two against the Oakland A's on Wednesday night. The three runs he allowed was his fewest in a start since May 10. He still took the loss though.

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	H	2b	3b	HR's	RBI	BB's	K's	BA
J. Lugo	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200
K. Youkilis	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000
D. Ortiz	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	.500
M. Ramirez	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000
J.D. Drew	8	4	1	1	1	4	1	1	.500
M. Lowell	3	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	.667
D. Mirabelli	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
C. Crisp	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
D. Pedroia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Totals	21	8	1	1	1	6	3	5	.381

A pretty good line by the boys who have actually faced Cook. The bats should be able to rough him up. The question is where will Lugo bat in the order? I would not be surprised to see him batting 9th after Coco.

Historical Pitching line

Pitcher	GS	W	L	Sho	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
Cook	1	0	1	0	5	6	3	0	4	7	5.40	2.00
Wakefield	3	0	3	0	18 2/3	29	12	1	8	8	5.79	1.98

These pitcher lines probably don't mean a lot, since Wakefield's starts were while he was in Pittsburgh and Cooks start was in 2004. I look for Wakefield to come out firing and I fully expect the Knuckler to knuckle effectively.

Chow!