BOSTON -- The Red Sox are back at Fenway Park, but home may not so sweet tonight. Not when they have to face Sonny Gray.
Gray, the A's ace and one of the best young pitchers in the American League, will be on the mound for Oakland as the Sox begin a week-long, seven-game home stand. He'll be opposed Clay Buchholz, who's hoping to build on his stong performance last Wednesday night in Chicago.
Intersting note: There are four ex-Sox -- Coco Crisp, Jed Lowrie, Josh Reddick and Danny Valencia -- in the A's lineup. And Crisp, Lowrie and Reddick are in the 1-2-3 positions in the batting order.
The lineups:
A's:
Coco Crisp CF
Jed Lowrie 2B
Josh Reddick RF
Khris Davis LF
Stephen Vogt DH
Danny Valencia 3B
Yonder Alonso 1B
Josh Phegley C
Marcus Semien SS
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Sonny Gray P
RED SOX:
Mookie Betts RF
Dustin Pedroia 2B
Xander Bogaerts SS
David Ortiz DH
Hanley Ramirez 1B
Travis Shaw 3B
Brock Holt LF
Jackie Bradley Jr. CF
Christian Vazquez C
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Clay Buchholz P