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Sox-Angels series wraps up this afternoon in Anaheim

Print | Comments () Posted by Steve Silva, Boston.com Staff May 14, 2009 09:27 AM

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You won't have to decide between the Bruins, Celtics, and Red Sox tonight, because the local nine will be taking the field for a 3:35 p.m. start today at Angel Stadium, where the Red Sox and Angels will square off in the rubber game of their three-game series.

We'll have lineups, pregame updates, a live game chat with the Globe's Amalie Benjamin and Adam Kilgore, game photos, and more this afternoon on Boston.com.

Righthander Brad Penny (3-1, 6.90 ERA) will take the mound for the Red Sox today. In his longest outing of the season, Penny pitched 6 1/3 innings against the Rays on Friday at Fenway, giving up eight hits and three runs in the Sox 7-3 win. On April 11, Penny gave up five hits and allowed three runs in six innings work in a 5-4 win over Los Angeles.

The Sox will have Dustin Pedroia returning to the lineup this afternoon to help bolster an offense which has gone 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position in the series.

For the Angels, it's righthander Earvin Santana on the hill. Santana (sprained elbow) will be making his season debut for Mike Scioscia's squad after making two rehab starts with Triple-A Salt Lake. The 2008 All-Star went 16-7 with a 3.49 ERA last season and is 1-2 with a 5.83 ERA in five starts and one relief appearance against the Red Sox.

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13 comments so far...

Why would the Sox be playing the Rays in Angel stadium?

Posted by Jeff May 14, 09 09:56 AM

ahh, i think they are playing Angels this afternoon

Boston.com: Our bad .... this has been fixed.

Posted by christopher May 14, 09 10:01 AM

Hurry up and lose Bruins and Celts.so we can concentrate on Sox. A curse,a hex a pox on both your houses! This city has too many good teams.It's exasperating !!

Posted by Pick your poison;you can't have it both ways May 14, 09 11:07 AM

damn Versus isn't airing the game where i live until after the freakn detroit game!

Posted by steve May 14, 09 11:26 AM

And it's Ervin, not Earvin.

Posted by Scott May 14, 09 11:30 AM

oh stop it will ya you know who they meant pal

Posted by nslavin May 14, 09 11:44 AM

Let's hope Brad Penny stayed out of the bar last night at least...

Posted by menolikpenny May 14, 09 12:13 PM

Pick your poison, move away to a city with losing teams. I like all my teams winning just fine...

Posted by Dark Star May 14, 09 02:24 PM

I've got it!

Papi - since you're so sensitive to all the negative nabobs who are wondering when you'll start hitting for power, I've got the perfect solution -- YOU tell US when we should start worrying about your power outage.

If you don't have a home run before June, may we worry? If you have 4 home runs in August, may we worry? If you finish the season with 11 home runs, is that bad, Papi? Should Tito and the Red Sox stick with you for another year so you can show us how you'll get it going at some point? Even if it takes until 2010? Because if you ever got traded, you'd really have to show us what all of our negative impatience cost us, huh.

I mean, pardon all of us for wondering about your current display of ineptitude. We don't want to 'attack' you with all of this 'negativity.' ... We'll just wait. How's that? And you can tell us when we should start worrying.
For now... you're so amazing, Mr. Ortiz. We believe in you. Go get 'em. Tonight's the night, Papi, we can feel it.

Thanks.

Posted by thenation May 14, 09 02:27 PM

Where are the lineups?

Posted by Barry May 14, 09 02:33 PM

Memo to Theo: Time for a few repairs: 1. Insert Dice-K into the rotation; move Masterson to long relief; return Jones to AAA. 2. Send Papi to minors or Ft Myers to "get healthy"; bring up Carter to DH. 3. Trade Delcarmen and Penny for one or more of the following: SS, power DH, catcher; insert Bucholz into rotation, move Wake to relief.
The market is hot for starters and relievers. Penny is now throwing at 92-95 and showing no pain. Delcarmen is already viewed as a potential closer. The two of them combined could get us the talent we need to fill our obvious holes.
We can't go much longer without a DH and a SS.

Posted by geosfun May 14, 09 02:50 PM

sure, hope for the 2 teams currently in exciting playoff series to lose so we can "concentrate" really hard on a team with about 125 games still left in the regular season. fool.

Posted by Kfitz May 14, 09 03:05 PM

The sox have 3 players batting below 230 in there starting lineup. While I might understand sticking with vets who have performed well in the past, isn't it time to give another player a shot at first base while Youk is on the disabled list? Surely, the sox have someone in Pawtucket who can play first and hit over 200!

Posted by Jim May 15, 09 10:33 AM