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Saturday’s Red Sox-Rays matchups: Josh Beckett vs. David Price 05.26.12 at 8:40 am ET
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Josh Beckett

Josh Beckett doesn’t seem like the same pitcher who was recently booed by the Fenway faithful on his way to the dugout, as the 32-year-old has won his last two starts, giving up a total of one earned run. In his last trip to the mound Beckett pitched 7 2/3 innings of one-run, seven-hit baseball, helping the Red Sox to a 5-1 victory over the Phillies.

Beckett (4-4) will try to start another winning streak for the Red Sox when he takes the mound against the Rays on Saturday night.

The Texas native, who has an ERA of 4.38 through eight starts, last faced the Rays and pitcher David Price on April 13. In Boston’s 12-2 victory over the Rays, Beckett pitched eight innings of one-run baseball.

Beckett has faced four Tampa Bay batters over 20 times, and he has been pretty effective, limiting all those players except Luke Scott to a batting average of under .200. Through 29 plate appearances, Scott has a .417 batting average vs. Beckett.

The last time Beckett lost a start was on May 10 when the Red Sox lost 8-3 to the Indians. Beckett pitched 2 1/3 innings and allowed seven earned runs, including two home runs.

Beckett’s counterpart for the second time this season is Price (6-3, 2.88). The last time Price lost a decision was his last start, when he gave up one earned run through seven innings of baseball as the Rays lost 2-0 to the Braves.

Price won his previous start on May 15, allowing three earned runs through seven innings as the Rays beat the Blue Jays. One of Price’s worst starts of the season came when he last faced the Red Sox on April 13, as the 26-year-old allowed three earned runs in three innings.

Kevin Youkilis has the best batting average of any Sox player against Price, hitting .364 over 25 plate appearances. Against the Red Sox all-time, Price holds a 4-6 record and a 3.43 ERA.

Rays vs. Beckett

Carlos Pena (35 plate appearances): .125 BA/.200 OBP/.281 SLG, 2 doubles, 1 home run, 1 RBI, 3 walks, 17 strikeouts

B.J. Upton (33): .194/.219/.290, 3 doubles, 1 RBI, 1 walk, 10 strikeouts

Luke Scott (29): .417/.517/.792, 3 HR, 7 RBIs, 5 walks, 5 strikeouts

Jose Molina (26): .160/.160/.160, 1 RBI, 7 strikeouts

Ben Zobrist (23): .095/.174/.095, 1 RBI, 2 walks, 5 strikeouts

Matthew Joyce (15): .067/.067/.067, 5 strikeouts

Sean Rodriguez (3): .000/.000/.000, 1 strikeout

Stephen Vogt (3): .000/.000/.000

Red Sox vs. Price

Kevin Youkilis (25 plate appearances): .364 BA/.400 OBP/.455 SLG, 2 doubles, 1 RBI, 4 strikeouts

Dustin Pedroia (24): .300/.417/.550, 2 doubles, 1 home run, 2 RBIs, 4 walks, 3 strikeouts

David Ortiz (22): .167/.318/.278, 2 doubles, 3 RBIs, 4 walks, 6, strikeouts

Adrian Gonzalez (18): .133/.278/.200, 1 double, 1 RBI, 3 walks, 3 strikeouts

Jarrod Saltalamacchia (10): .125/.300/.250, 1 double, 2 walks, 3 strikeouts

Marlon Byrd (8): .000/.375/.000, 3 walks

Mike Aviles (7): .143/.143/.286, 1 double, 2 strikeouts

Scott Podsednik (6): .400/.500/.600, 1 double, 1 walk

Nick Punto (3): .000/.000/.000

Daniel Nava (3): .000/.000/.000, 1 strikeout

In one plate appearance, Kelly Shoppach was hit by a pitch vs. Price.

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  • Anonymous

    Ding Ding Ding…Round 2

  • Bernard Curtin

    I like the move Chandler Jones put on all-pro Michael Roos and then he devoured Locker for a strip sack. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/pete.lincoln.338 Pete Lincoln

    Rondo who?

  • Cfn

    We are a better team without Rondo, plain and simple.  I don’t care what WEEI hosts say or what DOC or DA say.  We lost talent, but we gained on an a psycholocial level.  Rondo was dragging this team down because he thought it was his.  Well folks, there are others who can dribble the ball up the court and pass it.  The team is fusing together now and we will make a run into the playoffs.  With Green fired up and PP trying to prove he is better, and Barbosa and Lee and Terry competing with each other we will be awesome.  I am sorry Rondo is hurt and I use to like him, but the team is better without him.

    • sin8686

      100% agree…accept the fact that he does bring it in the playoffs so that will hurt us i will admit…but hes a stat chaser and there have been numerous unconfirmed reports the teammates dont like playing alongside rondo…i.e courtney lee. terry. (albeit in a nice way). even danny ainge said that at times rondo does chase stats..when i go on espn boards fans bash me for not loving rondo and some say they hope the  C’s lose so they can shut me up. but i think those fans dont live in mass. rondo is areally good player…just not elite

  • http://www.facebook.com/derek.lee.82 Derek Lee

    We’re talking about bad teams? Bad teams? You want to talk about bad teams. Are the C’s better since Rondo went down. No, They beat the magic, and the Kings, you need to apply the skids.

  • Baker

    Yeah, keep posting the same thing on every article, I love it, seriously, I do. I want the same thing on every article now. Even when they lose, I want you on here reminding everyone just what the ratio is of wins loses post-Rondo… Hey, maybe you can even start a post-Sully one. I’ll start you off.
    Games without Sully: 1
    Wins without Sully 1
    … Whoa, glad we got that under control. Go #$%$ yourself.

  • Chris Nilan

    Titletown, I still can’t get over you calling Shawn Thornton useless. 

  • Vision

     They are just playing ball without thinking. I find Rondo to be out of control and not in sync with his teammates. My observation.

  • Bruinman86

     Ahh, I see you have updated it. But if you really want tell the whole story, here’s the entire season:  With Rondo 14-13.  Without Rondo 5-3.

  • Vision

     Thorton bleeds black and gold- prototype Bruin

  • Titletown1

     Reference Thornton’s last fight. It’s the only reason he’s on the roster and he got knocked into next week….literally, he’s out for 7-10 days. He gives the puck away more than any other player on the team. Yeah, useless.

  • Baker

    Check your math, team is 23-23.

  • sin8686

    in the past 2 or 3 years the celtics have a better winning % without rondo…its actually quite drastic and i 100% agree with VISION he makes  the team stagnant, off rhythm looking for assists to a fault…i always here how rondo makes everyone else look good…yet all ive seen is rondo looking good and everyone else looking bad (not blaming all of our woes on rondo) green terry etc. share that blame but rondo has the ball 95% of the time so he gets the lion share of the balme 

  • Titletown1

     Couldn’t agree more. Rondo is out of control on the court and a head case to boot. As long as he gets his triple double, or close to it, he’s good. Should have dealt him when they had the chance.

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