Sunday, May 19, 2013
The Tampa Bay Rays and David Price take on Boston and Tim Wakefield.
It is a terrible match-up for the Red Sox. Wakefield usually needs his teammates to put up a lot of runs for a win. Price does not give up a lot of runs.
Wakefield is 7-6 with a 5.13 ERA.
In games that Boston has scored less than six runs, Wakefield is 1-6.
Wakefield has allowed four or more runs in his last five starts. Price has given up a total of nine runs in his last seven starts.
Darnell McDonald (.316), Dustin Pedroia (.294) and Jacoby Ellsbury (.273) have the best success against Price, although Conor Jackson is 2-for-3 against Price.
Jackson is play left field, in place of Carl Crawford (0-for-9 vs. Price).
Rays third baseman Evan Longoria loves to hit against Wakefield (.429), as does former teammate Johnny Damon (.309, four home runs).
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Kevin Thomas covers baseball and basketball for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He wisely moved to Maine in 1994 after working for the St. Petersburg Times. He is married to Nancy and they have nine children.
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