Red Sox-Rockies series thumbnails

at Fenway Park
Records: Colorado is 31-32 (fourth in the National League West, 5 1/2 games behind); Boston is 40-22 (first in the American League East).

Tonight (7:05 p.m., NESN, WRKO 680): RHP Aaron Cook (4-2, 4.54) vs. RHP Tim Wakefield (5-7, 4.22) .

Tomorrow (7:05 p.m., NESN, WEEI 850): RHP Josh Fogg (1-5, 5.06) vs. RHP Curt Schilling (6-2, 3.49) .

Thursday (7:05 p.m., NESN, WRKO 680): LHP Jeff Francis (5-5, 3.81) vs. RHP Josh Beckett (9-0, 2.88) .

Head to head: This is the only series the teams play this season. They last met in 2004, when Colorado took two of three at Coors Field. The Rockies last visited Fenway in 2002.

Miscellany: Cook is 4-1 in his last seven starts . . . After missing nearly a year with a medical condition that caused blood clots in both lungs, Cook won the Boston Baseball Writers' Tony Conigliaro Award in 2005 for overcoming adversity . . . Last Thursday, the Lynn-born Fogg made his first start after a stint on the disabled list because of a groin injury. He surrendered 11 hits and six runs over five innings in a no-decision . . . Matt Holliday leads the NL in hitting at .352 and is sixth in RBIs with 46 . . . CF Willy Taveras ranks fifth in the NL in steals with 15 but has been caught eight times .