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Boston Red Sox vs. Toronto Blue Jays

 

Josh Beckett (11-8, 3.92) vs. Shaun Marcum (7-5, 3.42)

 

All it took to slow down the Boston Red Sox’s scorching offense was facing a Cy Young Award winner. If Shaun Marcum keeps pitching like one, it won’t take Boston long to tire of the Toronto Blue Jays.

 

The Blue Jays will look to complete a rain-shortened sweep of the Red Sox as the AL East rivals stage one of their 11 remaining meetings on Sunday at Fenway Park.

 

After scoring 37 runs during a three-game sweep of the Texas Rangers this week, Boston’s offense was quickly cooled by Toronto’s Roy Halladay, who tossed his major league-leading eighth complete game in the Blue Jays’ 4-1 win on Saturday.

 

The Red Sox (71-52) didn’t have an extra-base hit against Halladay until Dustin Pedroia’s home run to lead off the ninth inning. They had been scoring more than seven runs per game in August entering Saturday.

 

“You can’t get caught up on how a team’s going—good or bad,” Halladay said. “Sure they were swinging the bats good against Texas. I look at quality pitches. I try to avoid who’s hot and who’s not.”

 

Toronto’s quality pitching has hardly ended with Halladay. The Blue Jays (63-60) lead the AL with a 3.63 team ERA, something the Red Sox are familiar with after scoring 13 total runs in seven games against Toronto this year, losing five of them.

 

One of those was against Marcum (7-5, 3.42 ERA), who had struggled since being activated from the disabled list last month, going 0-1 with a 9.82 ERA in his first three starts.

 

Since then, he’s won back-to-back outings, allowing three runs in 13 innings. Marcum’s .218 opponent batting average ranks fourth in the majors.

 

“I’m locating my fastball now and that makes things a little easier for me,” Marcum said after allowing two runs in six innings of a 7-2 win at Detroit on Monday.

 

The right-hander beat Boston after giving up three runs and three hits in seven innings of a 6-3 win on April 4, moving to 3-0 with a 2.77 ERA in four career starts against the Red Sox.

 

Marcum will have a worthy adversary in Boston’s Josh Beckett, who is also seeking his third straight victory. Beckett (11-8, 3.92) has struck out 15 in 14 2-3 innings in his last two starts, giving up 11 hits and three runs.

 

Beckett hasn’t won three straight starts all season after going on runs of four and seven consecutive wins last year. In his last start, he gave up one run in eight innings of a 5-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox.

 

“He looks like he’s primed to go ahead and be the guy that we need,” Red Sox manager Terry Francona said.

 

The only time Beckett has failed to last five innings this season came at Toronto, when he gave up five runs in 4 2-3 innings in his first start of the year on April 6.

 

He’s 3-4 with a 4.92 ERA in nine career starts against the Blue Jays, most often having problems with Vernon Wells. Wells is 9-for-27 against Beckett with five home runs.

 

Toronto trails Boston by eight games for the AL wild card, but it will have plenty of chances to cut directly into that deficit. The Red Sox visit Rogers Centre during a nine-game road trip next weekend, then the teams meet seven more times over a 10-day span in mid-September.

 

That stretch includes the makeup game from Friday’s rainout, which shortened this weekend’s series to two games

 

Yahoo! Sports

 

Note the start time of 1:35pm

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Shaun Marcum (9 games vs Boston, 3-1 with a 3.00 ERA---Career at Fenway Park in 4 games, 1-0 with a 3.21 ERA)

Jacoby Ellsbury, 1 for 4 (.250 avg) Double, RBI

Dustin Pedroia, 0 for 8

David Ortiz, 2 for 10 (.200 avg) 4 Walks, 3 Ks

Kevin Youkilis, 2 for 13 (.154 avg) Double, 6 Ks

J.D. Drew, 2 for 9 (.222 avg) Double, HR, 4 RBIs, Walk, 3 Ks

Jason Bay ---

Jed Lowrie ---

Alex Cora, 1 for 5 (.200 avg) K

Jason Varitek, 2 for 7 (.286 avg) 2 Walks, 2 Ks

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Sean Casey, 0 for 2

Kevin Cash, 1 for 2 (.500 avg) Double, K

Coco Crisp, 1 for 6 (.167 avg) 2 Ks

 

Josh Beckett (10 games vs Toronto, 3-5 with a 4.92 ERA---Career at Fenway Park in 44 games, 21-15 with a 4.62 ERA)

Joe Inglett, 1 for 3 (.333 avg)

Marco Scutaro, 1 for 5 (.200 avg) Triple, 2 Ks

Alex Rios, 5 for 16 (.313 avg) 2 Doubles, HR, 2 RBIs, 3 Walks, 4 Ks

Vernon Wells, 9 for 27 (.333 avg) Double, 5 HRs, 8 RBIs, 2 Walks, 3 Ks

Adam Lind, 1 for 3 (.333 avg) Double, K

Rod Barajas, 4 for 9 (.444 avg) 2 Doubles, HR, 2 RBIs, Walk, K

Lyle Overbay, 7 for 25 (.280 avg) Double, 2 HRs, 6 RBIs, 7 Walks

Brad Wilkerson, 10 for 40 (.250 avg) 4 Doubles, Triple, 2 HRs, 5 RBIs, 10 Walks, 18 Ks, SB

John McDonald, 1 for 3 (.333 avg) 2 Walks, K, SB

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David Eckstein, 1 for 3 (.333 avg) HR, RBI

Kevin Mench, 2 for 6 (.333 avg) HR, 2 RBIs

Matt Stairs, 2 for 14 (.143 avg) HR, 3 RBIs, Walk, 6 Ks

Gregg Zaun, 1 for 9 (.111 avg) Double, RBI, 2 Ks

 

Marcum this season vs Boston in 1 game, 1-0 with a 3.86 ERA. On the road in 9 games, 2-2 with a 4.62 ERA

 

Beckett this season vs Toronto in 2 games, 0-2 with a 9.64 ERA. At home in 10 games, 5-4 with a 5.03 ERA

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Line drive turned into a DP.

Sounds like a repeat of last night.

 

Nice outing from our "ace". Maybe he, like Buchholz, needs another necklace. WTF is up with those two Texas fairies and the neckgear?

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If there's anything that will keep this team out of the postseason, it is their abject failure against the Toronto Blue Jays. 10 more against them after today.
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I missed the game today, but I caught a little bit on the radio. I heard the inning where Beckett got removed. Because beckett was so bad today, the announcer was speculating about his health. Was there anything about his health post game or was it just a bad outing. When he speculated about his health, I have to say that I started to get a little nauseas.
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