BOSTON — As the Red Sox try to build on their league-best home record and take another game from the visiting Miami Marlins, Masataka Yoshida is back in their lineup Saturday.
The Red Sox sat Matsuzaka Friday to give him a breather. The Red Sox are trying to manage his workload a bit after he missed the first three months of the season recovering from last October’s shoulder surgery.
Saturday’s lineup features Romy Gonzalez at first base, despite the fact that the Sox are facing righthander Cal Quantrill. That could well be because of the struggles of Abraham Toro, who is batting below .200 over the last 47 games.
The Sox will also have Connor Wong behind the plate, matched up with starter Brayan Bello. Wong and Bello have developed a nice rapport over the course of the season, with the former catching about three-quarters of the latter’s starts.
It will be interesting to see if there any’s carryover from last July, when Quantrill, then with Colorado, instigated a bench-clearing brawl after he directed some comments to then-Sox catcher Reese McGuire. A number of Red Sox players were angry enough postgame to discuss seeking out Quantrill in the parking lot outside Coors Field.
MIAMI MARLINS (58-64) @ BOSTON RED SOX (67-56) · FENWAY PARK · BOSTON, MA · GAME 124
FIRST PITCH: 4:10 p.m. ET
TV CHANNEL: NESN
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PITCHING PROBABLES: RHP Cal Quantrill (4-9, 5.09) vs. RHP Brayan Bello (8-6, 3.25 ERA)
RED SOX LINEUP:
1) LF Roman Anthony
2) 3B Alex Bregman
3) CF Jarren Duran
4) SS Trevor Story
5) DH Masataka Yoshida
6) 1B Romy Gonzalez
7) RF Wilyer Abreu
8) 2B Ceddanne Rafaela
9) C Connor Wong
MARLINS LINEUP
1) 2B Xavier Edwards
2) RF Jacob Marsee
3) DH Agustin Ramirez
4) SS Otto Lopez
5) C Liam Hicks
6) LF Heriburto Hernandez
7) 1B Troy Johnston
8) CF Derek Hill
9) 3B Graham Pauley
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