Red Sox 07 Game 91

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J. Litsch		1-3, 4.74		J. Beckett		12-2, 3.44
Blue Jays		44-46		Red Sox		55-35

Sunday, July 15    Fenway Park | 2:05 PM ET

American League

East	W	L	GB	L 10	X W	X L
Boston	55	35	-	6-4	55	35
New York	44	44	10.0	7-3	51	37
Toronto	43	46	11.0	5-5	46	44
Baltimore	40	50	15.0	5-5	44	46
Tampa	35	55	20.0	2-8	34	56

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Blue Jays: Litsch made his first Major League start in more than a month on July 3, against the Athletics. He picked up the loss despite allowing only two unearned runs over seven innings while striking out five. The 22-year-old was recalled from Triple-A Syracuse to replace the injured A.J. Burnett, who is on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right shoulder. This is the second time Litsch is replacing one of Toronto's top pitchers. Earlier this season, he went 1-2 with a 6.63 ERA while filling in for ace Roy Halladay.

Red Sox: On July 5, Beckett became the 17th Red Sox pitcher to record 12 wins before the All-Star break, joining luminaries such as Roger Clemens, Pedro Martinez, Luis Tiant and Lefty Grove. He allowed three earned runs and nine hits against the Rays over six innings, striking out nine in what was his ninth quality start of the season. Beckett has pitched at least six innings in 12 of 15 starts this year.

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

Sox Batting vs Litsch

No one has faced Litsch - that could be bad.

Pitching Comparisions (Beckett overall VS Jays / At Fenway)

Pitcher	GS	W	L	Sho	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP	IP/GS
Overall	6	2	2	0	36	33	21	9	13	22	5.25	1.28	6
Fenway	3	1	1	0	17	13	8	1	9	7	4.24	1.29	5.67

Josh has a mixed bag vs the Jays, when he's good he's good when he's bad he's very bad. The good games were last year in Fenway on 4/11/2006 and this year at Toronto on 5/8/2007.

Aaron Hill and Alexis Rios have been the thorn in Beckett's side. Rios is 3 for 7 with a double and a home run. Hill is 5 for 14 with 3 doubles.

Last nights starters for Toronto are 18 for 77 with three homers and 11 RBI's and 8 walks. They do have 21 k's against him. So, the question is which Beckett shows up the good Beckett or the lousy Beckett. I say the good one.
Chow!