BOSTON RED SOX (9-11) vs. NEW YORK YANKEES (11-8) Tuesday, April 22, 2014 • 7:10 p.m. ET • Fenway Park, Boston, MA LHP Jon Lester (2-2, 2.17) vs. RHP Masahiro Tanaka (2-0, 2.05) Game #21 • Home Game #11 • TV: NESN+/MLBN • Radio: WEEI 93.7 FM, WCEC 1490 AM (Spanish) STATE OF THE SOX: Yesterday the Red Sox dropped their WALKS AND STRIKEOUTS: Sox pitchers rank 2nd in the annual 11:05 a.m. Patriots’ Day game to the Orioles 7-6... AL with an average of 2.61 walks per 9.0 IP (OAK, 2.60) and REGULAR SEASON BREAKDOWN The clubs split the 4-game series with 2 games apiece. a 3.19 strikeout-to-walk ratio (NYY, 2.26)...Boston is also Overall ............................................. 9-11 AL East Standing .................T-3rd, 2.0 GB Boston has taken 4 of its last 6 contests following a 2nd in the AL with 169 strikeouts, only LAA (176). At Home ............................................. 4-6 3-8 stretch from 4/4-15. On Road ............................................. 5-5 DESIGNATED APPROACH: With 1,641 career games In day games ...................................... 2-5 The Sox have lost just 2 of their 6 series this season, at DH, David Ortiz is 2 shy of tying Harold Baines (1,643) In night games ................................... 7-6 going 3-2-1 in series play...The breakdown: 1-1-1 at for the all-time record at the position...Ortiz is already the April ................................................. 9-11 home and 2-1 on the road. leader in most offensive categories at the positon, including vs. AL East .......................................... 5-6 At 9-11 (.450), Boston is last in the AL East, just 2 hits (1,775), doubles (450), homers (383), and RBI (1,254). vs. AL Central ..................................... 2-1 wins shy of the 1st-place Yankees...All 5 teams within vs. AL West ......................................... 2-1 2.5 games of one another. SOX AND YANKS: Tonight the Red Sox and Yankees open vs. National League............................ 0-3 a 3-game series in Boston, the clubs’ 1st matchups at Fen- vs. RH starter ...................................... 4-9 way Park this year...It marks the 5th of 19 regular season vs. LH starter ...................................... 5-2 HOME STRETCH: Tonight marks the Red Sox’ 5th game Leading after 6 innings ...................... 5-0 in a stretch of playing 15 of 18 at home from 4/18-5/7 (2-2 games between these teams in 2014, with the Sox going Tied after 6 innings ............................ 2-4 thus far)...A 3-game set in Toronto this weekend accounts 1-3 thus far...They meet next for 3 games in NYY, 6/27-29. Trailing after 6 innings ....................... 2-7 for their only road games in that 20-day span, which began At 13-6 against New York in 2013, the Sox became Leading after 7 innings ...................... 5-0 with the current 7-day, 7-game homestand against the Ori- the 1st team to win 13 or more games against the Tied after 7 innings ............................ 3-3 oles (4 games) and Yankees (3 games). Yankees in a single season since the 1976 Orioles (13- Trailing after 7 innings ....................... 1-8 5)...The Red Sox hadn’t won as many games against Leading after 8 innings ...................... 6-0 Boston is 4-3 in its last 6 home games after a 3-game Tied after 8 innings ............................ 2-3 sweep at the hands of MIL to begin the home slate. the Yankees since 1973 (14-4). Trailing after 8 innings ....................... 1-8 Red Sox score 1st ............................... 6-1 FAMILIAR FOE: Jon Lester has allowed 4 ER or less or in Opponent scores fi rst ....................... 3-10 CLOSE CALLS: Of Boston’s 20 games this season, 12 have all 10 of his starts against the Yankees dating back to the been decided by 2 runs or fewer (60%), with the Sox going Shutouts ............................................. 0-1 beginning of 2012, going 4-2 with a 3.50 ERA (24 ER/61.2 Scoring less than 3 runs ..................... 0-6 7-5 in those 12 contests...The 12 games decided by 2 runs IP) in those games...It is the longest such active streak by a or fewer are the most among AL teams (T-4th in MLB). Scoring 3 or 4 runs ............................. 5-2 left-handed starter against the Yankees. Scoring 5 or more runs ....................... 4-3 7 of Boston’s games have been decided in a team’s Lester is 10-5 against New York since the start of Red Sox hit HR ................................... 6-8 last at-bat (4-3). Red Sox hit 0 HR ................................ 3-2 2009, the most wins against NYY in that stretch...TB’s 1-run games ....................................... 2-5 Of the club’s 11 losses, 5 have been decided by 1 run, David Price ranks 2nd on that list (9-5). 2-run games ....................................... 5-0 tying KC the most 1-run losses in the AL. Walk-offs ............................................ 1-1 The Sox’ 11 losses have been decided by an average QUALITY OFFERINGS: Boston pitchers have quality starts Extra innings (home) .......................... 0-1 of 2.4 runs...Boston’s largest margin of defeat is 4 in all but 7 of the team’s 20 games this season. Extra innings (road)............................ 1-0 runs, done 3 times, most recently on Friday night. The club’s 13 quality starts rank 2nd in the AL to OAK Extra innings (total) ........................... 1-1 (15) and match the club’s most QS within the team’s Series openers .................................... 1-5 Series fi nales ...................................... 3-3 RELIEF LEADER: Red Sox relievers rank 4th in MLB and fi rst 19 games of a season over the last 25 years from Series W-L-T (home) ........................1-1-1 lead the AL with a 2.20 ERA...Oakland ranks 2nd in the AL 1989-2014 (also 13 in 2001). Series W-L-T (road) .......................... 2-1-0 with a 2.39 bullpen ERA...The Boston bullpen has allowed Sox starters have allowed 2 ER or less in 12 of their Series W-L-T (total) ..........................3-2-1 just 5 ER in 35.2 innings over the club’s last 11 games be- quality starts, tied with OAK for the AL lead. Series sweeps (home) ........................ 0-1 ginning on 4/10 (1.26 ERA). Series sweeps (road) .......................... 0-0 SCORING STORY: The Red Sox have scored 6 runs in each Series sweeps (total) .......................... 0-1 Sox relievers have thrown 25.0 of the team’s 59.0 Come-from-behind wins ........5, last 4/20 innings (42%) over the club’s last 6 games, with a of their last 2 games, reaching at least that total in back-to- back games for the 1st time this season. Innings batting around...........................0 1.44 ERA in relief over that span...Overall the Sox rank Games decided in last AB................... 4-3 2nd in the AL with 65.1 relief innings (HOU, 70.0). All 12 runs scored in the last 2 games have come in Boston has won all 5 games this season when leading the 5th inning or later. after 7 innings, and all 6 games when leading after 8. VS. THE YANKEES ROOKIE ON: Xander Bogaerts has reached safely in 16 of All-Time vs. NYY (since 1903) ....948-1,141-14 In Boston .............................520-526-7 PUTTING UP ZEROS: Red Sox relievers Chris Capuano (10 his 19 games this season...He has reached in 13 of 24 PA over his last 3 games (54.2%), raising his OBP from .351 to In New York .........................428-615-7 SO/1 BB in 10.2 IP), Junichi Tazawa (10 SO/1 BB in 9.0 IP), At Yankee Stadium ..................... 25-25 and Koji Uehara (11 SO/1 BB in 7.0 IP) have combined for .407 mark, tops among Red Sox qualifi ers, 8th in the AL and 31 strikeouts and just 3 walks in 26.2 scoreless innings. 2nd among MLB rookies to NYY’s Yangervis Solarte (.414). 2014 vs. Yankees .............................. 1-3 In Boston ........................................ 0-0 Capuano’s 10.2 innings are the most in the AL among Bogaerts is also pacing the team and leading ML In New York .................................... 1-3 pitchers who have not allowed a run...He ranks 2nd in rookies with both 12 walks (T-10th in AL overall) and 33 times on base (T-5th in AL overall). DATE H/R SCORE WP LP MLB to MIL’s Francisco Rodriguez (0 R in 11.0 IP). 4/10 R L1-4 Pineda Buchholz Bogaerts ranks 9th in the AL in pitches/plate 4/11 R W4-2 Lester Sabathia KOJI MANIA: Koji Uehara has not allowed a run in 7 out- appearance (4.38)...That would be the 2nd-highest 4/12 R L4-7 Kuroda Lackey ings this season (7.0 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 11 SO). mark by an MLB rookie qualifi er since 1988 (LAA’s 4/13 R L2-3 Nova Doubront In his last 57 games since the start of July 2013, Reggie Willits, 4.44 in 2007). including postseason and regular season, Uehara REHAB UPDATES: Shane Victorino, on the 15-day DL since UPCOMING MILESTONES has allowed only 2 ER in 61.0 innings for a 0.30 ERA, 3/31 (retro to 3/30) with a right hamstring strain, contin- surrendering just 23 hits and 3 walks (.113 AVG, .126 Milestone Player (current) ued a rehab assignment with Triple-A Pawtucket last night 100 HR ................................. Pedroia (99) OBP) while striking out 79 batters (11.7 SO/9.0 IP)...In against Buffalo (TOR), going 1-for-4 while playing 7 innings 500 RBI .............................