TV: NESN
First Pitch: 1:35 p.m. ET
The Red Sox and Blue Jays will wrap up what has been an astonishingly consistent series on Thursday at Fenway Park.
Boston puts tons of guys on base, none of them score, and loses. Toronto barely scrapes together a few hits, somehow gets its baserunners to score, and wins. It’s like clockwork, though that needs to change in order for the former to keep itself from falling 14 games below .500.
Sonny Gray will toe the rubber hoping to turn his club’s fortunes around,
which has proven to be a fairly decent formula as he’s 4-0 with a 2.86 ERA and 30 Ks in his last five outing stretching back to May 18. Red Sox manager Chad Tracy is rolling with a similar lineup to that of the middle game, with Caleb Durbin and Connor Wong subbing in for Marcelo Mayer and Masataka Yoshida.
Trey Yesavage will look to complete the series sweep for the Blue Jays, having already picked up a victory over this opponent earlier this season.
Yohendrick Piñango and Brandon Valenzuela will slot into the road team’s lineup for the first time this series. Nathan Lukes, on the other hand, will get his second start. Alejandro Kirk, Davis Schneider, and Myles Straw will slot out after getting the start on Wednesday.
The Red Sox will hit the road for a six-game road trip against the Seattle Mariners and Colorado Rockies.
