Red Sox 2008 Game 66 Preview

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E. Bedard		4-4, 4.47		J. Masterson		2-0, 2.95
Mariners		22 - 40		Red Sox		39 - 26

Sunday, June 8                 Fenway Park  ✠ 1:35 p.m. ET

American League

East	W	L	GB	L 10	1 R W	1 R L	X W	X L
Boston	39	26	-	7-3	9	8	38	27
Tampa Bay	37	25	.5	6-4	10	7	34	28
Baltimore	31	30	6.0	5-5	14	8	29	32
Toronto	32	32	6.5	4-6	9	14	35	29
New York	31	31	6.5	6-4	11	8	30	32

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Mariners: Bedard will be looking to bounce back from a lackluster performance against the Angels. The left-hander worked 3 1/3 innings at Safeco Field and three of the five runs he allowed came with two outs. He has been on a good-bad routine for this last five starts, looking sharp one outing and rocky the next.

Red Sox: While it wasn't his most dominant performance of the season, Masterson filled in for injured Daisuke Matsuzaka Tuesday against Tampa Bay by holding the Rays to four runs on six hits in six innings. Masterson, a young, talented hurler who was called up from Triple-A Pawtucket to make the appearance, has made spot starts three times this season filling in for injured members of the rotation. His first two starts raised eyebrows as Masterson allowed just two runs and five hits in 12 1/3 combined innings against the Angels and Royals.

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

Red Sox Batting History vs Bedard

Player	AB	Hits	2b	3b	HR's	RBI	BB's	K's	BA	OBA	Slug	OPS
J. Ellsbury	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333
D. Pedroia	12	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	.083	.154	.083	.237
J. D. Drew	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
M. Ramirez	23	5	1	0	0	3	2	8	.217	.269	.261	.530
M. Lowell	16	2	1	0	0	3	3	0	.125	.250	.188	.438
K. Youkilis	18	1	0	0	0	1	5	9	.056	.261	.056	.316
J. Varitek	17	3	0	0	0	2	4	9	.176	.364	.176	.540
C. Crisp	11	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.083	.000	.083
J. Lugo	32	8	1	0	0	0	3	4	.250	.314	.281	.596
Totals	131	20	3	0	0	9	20	33	.153	.266	.176	.442

Fugly looking batting stats, not even sure where to begin since almost no one hits this guy well. Here's hoping that Fenway is alive and so are the bats!

Pitching Comparisions Career

Pitcher	GS	W	L	Sho	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP	IP/GS
Bedard	11	5	4	0	67	51	33	4	36	55	4.43	1.30	5.73
Masterson	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---

After seeing the Bedard versus the batters split I was quite surprised to see that the Sox are over .500 agains this pitcher. Need Fenway to be home friendly and loud today!

Pitching Comparisions this year

Pitcher	GS	W	L	Sho	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP	IP/GS
Bedard	10	4	4	0	56 1/3	49	28	8	26	49	4.47	1.33	5.63
Masterson	3	2	0	0	18 1/3	11	6	3	9	14	2.95	1.08	6.11

Not much to say here as Masterson has been pretty good almost every time he has taken the mound this year. Looking forward to seeing how he does again today.

♊ - When all else fails, get a bigger hammer!