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San Francisco Giants<\/a> (52-75, fourth in the NL West) vs. Boston Red Sox<\/a> (68-59, third in the AL East)<\/p>\n

Boston; Friday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Giants: Logan Webb<\/a> (8-7, 3.50 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 110 strikeouts); Red Sox: Sonny Gray<\/a> (15-3, 2.65 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 117 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Red Sox -187, Giants +154; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Red Sox open a three-game series at home against the San Francisco Giants on Friday.<\/p>\n

Boston has a 68-59 record overall and a 31-32 record in home games. The Red Sox have the sixth-best team batting average in MLB<\/a> play at .250.<\/p>\n

San Francisco is 52-75 overall and 23-42 in road games. The Giants have gone 26-11 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: Willson Contreras<\/a> leads the Red Sox with a .284 batting average, and has 21 doubles, two triples, 25 home runs, 53 walks and 75 RBIs. Ceddanne Rafaela<\/a> is 11 for 44 with a home run and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jung Hoo Lee<\/a> has 27 doubles, four triples, nine home runs and 46 RBIs for the Giants. Bryce Eldridge<\/a> is 9 for 37 with a double, three home runs and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Red Sox: 4-6, .271 batting average, 3.77 ERA, outscored opponents by 11 runs<\/p>\n

Giants: 3-7, .219 batting average, 3.80 ERA, outscored by 15 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Red Sox: Isiah Kiner-Falefa: 60-Day IL (forearm), Jahmai Jones: day-to-day (undisclosed), Trevor Story: 60-Day IL (abdomen), Justin Slaten<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Masataka Yoshida<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Roman Anthony<\/a>: 60-Day IL (wrist), Johan Oviedo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Garrett Whitlock: 15-Day IL (elbow), Kutter Crawford: 60-Day IL (wrist), Triston Casas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Curtis Mead: 10-Day IL (hand), Garrett Crochet: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Zack Kelly<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tanner Houck: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Giants: Keaton Winn<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jesus Rodriguez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Harrison Bader<\/a>: 60-Day IL (plantar fasciitis), Daniel Susac: 60-Day IL (knee), Trevor McDonald<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Matt Chapman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (leg), Joel Peguero<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Marcelo Mayer<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Casey Schmitt: 10-Day IL (leg), Matt Gage<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jose Butto: 60-Day IL (arm), Hayden Birdsong: 60-Day IL (forearm), Randy Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Rowan Wick<\/a>: 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":"San Francisco Giants (52-75, fourth in the NL West) vs. Boston Red Sox (68-59, third in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,48,710,1396,75686,162,365,16008,44621,5416,375,1093,40915,112,19,1248,792,379,12022,4,12859,793,70335,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,1587,48585,1946,409,15821],"class_list":["post-784438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco-giants","tag-baseball","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-bryce-eldridge","tag-ceddanne-rafaela","tag-event_preview","tag-giants","tag-harrison-bader","tag-jesus-rodriguez","tag-joel-peguero","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-jung-hoo-lee","tag-justin-slaten","tag-keaton-winn","tag-logan-webb","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-marcelo-mayer","tag-masataka-yoshida","tag-matt-chapman","tag-matt-gage","tag-mlb","tag-randy-rodriguez","tag-roman-anthony","tag-rowan-wick","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sanfrancisco","tag-sanfranciscogiants","tag-sf","tag-sf-giants","tag-sfgiants","tag-sonny-gray","tag-trevor-mcdonald","tag-triston-casas","tag-willson-contreras","tag-zack-kelly"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784438","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=784438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}