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Boston Red Sox<\/a> (57-51, third in the AL East) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> (69-40, first in the NL West)<\/p>\n

Los Angeles; Friday, 10:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Red Sox: Ranger Suarez<\/a> (4-3, 3.02 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 103 strikeouts); Dodgers: Edgardo Henriquez<\/a> (4-1, 2.79 ERA, 1.05 WHIP, 42 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Dodgers host the Boston Red Sox to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles is 69-40 overall and 33-20 in home games. The Dodgers have gone 29-7 in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

Boston is 57-51 overall and 32-22 in road games. The Red Sox have gone 20-8 in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Friday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Freddie Freeman<\/a> has a .301 batting average to lead the Dodgers, and has 27 doubles, a triple and 15 home runs. Shohei Ohtani<\/a> is 12 for 41 with a home run and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Willson Contreras<\/a> leads the Red Sox with 23 home runs while slugging .549. Andruw Monasterio<\/a> is 13 for 32 with five doubles, a home run and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Dodgers: 6-4, .266 batting average, 4.34 ERA, outscored opponents by four runs<\/p>\n

Red Sox: 7-3, .245 batting average, 3.60 ERA, outscored opponents by five runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Dodgers: Bobby Miller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Will Smith: 60-Day IL (neck), Blake Treinen<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Blake Snell<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ben Casparius<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Gavin Stone<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Tyler Glasnow: 60-Day IL (back), Brusdar Graterol: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jake Cousins<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Red Sox: Kutter Crawford: 60-Day IL (wrist), Curtis Mead: 10-Day IL (hand), Marcelo Mayer<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Roman Anthony<\/a>: 60-Day IL (wrist), Garrett Crochet: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Trevor Story: 60-Day IL (abdomen), Isiah Kiner-Falefa: 10-Day IL (forearm), Triston Casas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Zack Kelly<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Johan Oviedo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tanner Houck: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox (57-51, third in the AL East) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (69-40, first in the NL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[7583,5,1134,114,1692,1522,141,48,2542,7909,75686,815,1523,2283,5416,57,19,1248,4,90,89,2543,793,468,1946,409,15821],"class_list":["post-766124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-red-sox","tag-andruw-monasterio","tag-baseball","tag-ben-casparius","tag-blake-snell","tag-blake-treinen","tag-bobby-miller","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-bostonredsox","tag-edgardo-henriquez","tag-event_preview","tag-freddie-freeman","tag-gavin-stone","tag-jake-cousins","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-marcelo-mayer","tag-mlb","tag-ranger-suarez","tag-red-sox","tag-redsox","tag-roman-anthony","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-triston-casas","tag-willson-contreras","tag-zack-kelly"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117013681507757675","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}