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Boston Red Sox<\/a> (83-70, third in the AL East) vs. Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (93-59, first in the AL East)<\/p>\n

St. Petersburg, Florida; Friday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Red Sox: Ranger Suarez<\/a> (7-4, 3.33 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, 130 strikeouts); Rays: Ian Seymour<\/a> (9-6, 4.27 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 150 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rays -126, Red Sox +104; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays host the Boston Red Sox looking to extend a five-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay has a 53-25 record at home and a 93-59 record overall. Rays hitters have a collective .406 slugging percentage to rank ninth in the majors.<\/p>\n

Boston has a 45-33 record on the road and an 83-70 record overall. The Red Sox have a 29-12 record in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

The teams match up Friday for the 11th time this season. The season series is tied 5-5.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Junior Caminero<\/a> has 41 home runs, 76 walks and 96 RBIs while hitting .277 for the Rays. Victor Mesa Jr.<\/a> is 14 for 33 with three doubles, a triple, three home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Willson Contreras<\/a> has 21 doubles, three triples and 27 home runs for the Red Sox. Adley Rutschman<\/a> is 8 for 38 with three doubles and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 8-2, .259 batting average, 2.45 ERA, outscored opponents by 31 runs<\/p>\n

Red Sox: 5-5, .202 batting average, 3.38 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rays: Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jon Heasley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ben Williamson<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Tyler Wells<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Jacob Melton: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Garrett Cleavinger: 15-Day IL (forearm), Shane McClanahan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Gavin Lux: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip)<\/p>\n

Red Sox: Willson Contreras: day-to-day (hand), Aroldis Chapman: day-to-day (lat), Ceddanne Rafaela: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Zack Kelly<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Johan Oviedo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tayron Guerrero: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Anthony Seigler<\/a>: 10-Day IL (right wrist), Curtis Mead: 10-Day IL (hand), Eli White: 10-Day IL (foot), Garrett Crochet: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Justin Slaten<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Eduardo Rivera<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Kutter Crawford: 60-Day IL (wrist), Masataka Yoshida<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Triston Casas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), 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 (83-70, third in the AL East) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (93-59, first in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[1079,24971,5,4806,48,74108,6925,75686,21295,5416,4682,1093,19,1095,792,4,90,297,1956,5720,2550,68,2551,2549,1946,1275,16204,409,15821],"class_list":["post-808154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-adley-rutschman","tag-anthony-seigler","tag-baseball","tag-ben-williamson","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-eduardo-rivera","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-ian-seymour","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-junior-caminero","tag-justin-slaten","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manuel-rodriguez","tag-masataka-yoshida","tag-mlb","tag-ranger-suarez","tag-rays","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-shane-mcclanahan","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays","tag-triston-casas","tag-tyler-wells","tag-victor-mesa-jr","tag-willson-contreras","tag-zack-kelly"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117291972272858955","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808154","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=808154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808154\/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=808154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}