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Saturday’s Red Sox-Twins matchups: Clay Buchholz vs. Cole De Vries 08.04.12 at 9:35 am ET
By Jashvina Shah

Clay Buchholz

Clay Buchholz will take the mound for the Red Sox against the Twins and righty Cole De Vries on Saturday night.

The Red Sox have won Buchholz’s last three starts, taking down the Tigers, Rangers and White Sox. He is 9-3 with a 4.75 ERA on the season, and the Red Sox are 3-1 since the righty returned from esophagitis in July.

In his last start, Buchholz allowed two runs and one home run through eight innings in a 7-3 win over the Tigers. It is the first victory Buchholz has earned since returning from his injury.

The 27-year-old is 1-0 all time against the Twins with a 8.44 ERA. He last started against Minnesota on April 25, allowing five runs in 5 1/3 innings as the Red Sox won 7-6. Buchholz has faced eight current Twins batters, pitching against Justin Morneau 11 times. Morneau is batting .455 with one RBI against the righty.

De Vries (2-2, 3.98) has never pitched against any current Boston batters, as he’s making his first start against the Red Sox.

The rookie pitched five innings of four-run baseball in his last start en route to a 7-6 Minnesota victory over the White Sox. Before the victory, the Twins had lost five of De Vries’ starts in a row.

His last victory came on June 30 over the Royals, when De Vries allowed one run through six innings. The Twins won 5-1.

Twins vs. Buchholz (RHP)

Justin Morneau (11 plate appearances): .455 BA/.455 OBP/.455 SLG, 1 RBI, 2 strikeouts

Denard Span (10): .400/.400/.600, 1 RBI

Joe Mauer (9): .429/.556/.571, 1 RBI, 2 walks

Jamey Carroll (6): .000/.500/.000, 2 walks

Alexi Casilla (3): 1.000/1.000/1.000, 1 RBI

Ben Revere (3): .667/.667/1.000

Josh Willingham (3): .667/.667/1.000

Danny Valencia (2): .000/.000/.000, 1 strikeout

Red Sox vs. De Vries (RHP)

No current Red Sox batters have faced the rookie.

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  • Jaime29

    Not  a good sign. The Sox don’t do well with rookies. Buchholz needs to pitch a shutout.

  • Anonymous

    What is your problem with the way Vince handled that situation?  I would take a teammate like that any day.  Maybe he should have counseled Vallos in private or over a nice latte.  Shut up and grow a pair.

  • Mcglinnj9

    Costing your team 15 yards with 3:23 to play because your teammate got PUSHED down from behind is a bad play. I’m sure that your intense preparation in T-Ball and Peewee league probably taught you to treat that situation much differently tough guy.

  • Sticks1121

    you are both turds

  • team captain

    jay mcglinn……I wonder if you ever played a team sport or served in the military?? this aint T-ball. You do what you need to do……..

  • JMSOREILLY88

    RIGHT ON,MY FRIEND I ONLY WISH I HAD PLAYED WITH YOU ON MY TEAM IN SCHOOL.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you all for your support, even you Sticks.  

  • Anonymous

    This is where I’m supposed to regale you with my athletic accomplishments since climbing out of the cradle.  Let’s just say that I’ve had teammates like you and couldn’t wait for them to quit because of bad language or some other personal affront.  Stick to the sidelines at soccer and dunk your croissant.

  • tom

    Rivers Pierce Garnet you suck so I hope you are not coming back.

  • http://twitter.com/JLeClair_ John LeClair

    They only won the first Championship here in over 20 years in 2008, made it to the Finals in 2010, and almost went back to the Finals last year. Shut up and leave your negative comments to yourself.

  • mike

    Pierce could care less if they one or lost and he never takes blame
    Pierce suck tonight like he has for a long time and was always very overrated. Pierce only played hard
    when he wanted to which was not very often and since 2008 he has suck.

  • bill

    Rivers should watch popvich from San Antonio and maybe he will lean how to coach because he sucks

  • Paul Edward McLaughlin

    trade for Oden

  • Billy OBrien

    I thinkKG, Pierce and Doc are all gonna walk into the sunset

  • thunderstruck

    OH SHUT THE HELL UP YOU BOSTON HATERS, THEY STILL HAVE MORE MONEY THAN WE DO

  • bill

    Ownership needs to get rid of Ainge Rivers Pierce Garnet Terry .
    if they don’t the Celtics will suck for the next 20 years

  • rick

    Rondo will never be the same player and Green is so inconsistent so Boston has nothing to build on. All Pierce was for 15 years was a ball hog and never could play with younger players he suck.

  • ron

    your not a celtic fan for sure maybe a ny fan pacers will beat ny 4-0 soon

  • ron

    mike you got one of those pink hats on

  • ron

    bill you should move to ny you might be more happy as knicks fan…..

  • Mike is a tool

    Go to the library and start reading “English For Dummies”….there will be a quiz later in the week to see if you’ve learned anything.

  • http://twitter.com/RedSoxFanatic38 RedSoxFanatic4Life

    As much as it pains me to write it, the correct decision now is to move on from the Pierce/KG era.

  • mike_certified_dummy

    I have to reply to a guy calling someone a tool and agree with him. I honestly couldn’t read the post from the artist allegedly known as “mike”. Even if we were hammered we couldn’t have wrote that poorly. I must be just as stupid if I tried to read it 3 times. Quiz 1 at 6pm next week mike! You dummy.

  • Bill_hicks

    Who do you get to replace them? That is the issue. You trade contracts. The player is behind the contract. What free agent or dude out of the draft can you get to replace them? It can’t be oh, oh, just git rid of ‘em…..

  • Joshua Jock

    Go play some golf Celtics.. or you gonna watch some Warriors to see how NBA is played??

  • drew

    Pierce single handedly lost that game for us, he was horrible last night!

  • Matt

    BLOW IT UP. Stop delaying the inevitable, Danny, and do what’s best for the future of this franchise. Think with your head, and no with emotion, and don’t continue to be a complete fraud like you’ve been doing for the past little while, when you laughed at Red for holding onto the players for too long, and you said you’d never do that. Yet, you have.

  • Anonymous

    Like I have said before in here, people need to have a brain in order to post. Pierce and Garnett are first ballot Hall of Famers. Thanks for the memories!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Anderson/100000065630538 Bill Anderson

    Every team has to deal with injuries but the Celtics have had key injuries every year since the championship in 2008. Garnett in 09, Perkins in 10, Bradley in 12, and Rondo this year. (I don’t remember who it was in 11). A very good team and run that was a couple injuries or missed shots from a dynasty.

  • Bruinman86

    My best guess is that Pierce gets to ride off into the sunset with one final season with the C’s before retiring. Meanwhile, either KG retires or they move him.Perhaps they can talk him into letting them trade him to a contender who needs one more piece. He doesn’t look like a starter anymore. Time to rebuild.

  • markfromlynn

    Ah Paul? Oden’s a free agent.

  • Schwank

    Read a “take em” (keep them for next year) and “leave em” (get rid of them) article in ESPN and for the most part it we keep just about everybody. That said there was significant criticism of Courtney Lee in the comment section. My take is that PP and KG are the “vets” their team so to speak. You can’t expect C Lee to come and score 20 a night there’s only 1 ball. That’s why a I give Green a pass too. When he came in two years ago…..he couldn’t just waltz in and take over. Then he was out with the heart ailment last year. This year he had to overcome that and eventually ascended to the top. Danny’s job is to determine if Green will thrive or regress when PP leaves. He’ll be the man then. On the other hand if he is simply a by-product of playing with KG and PP well then…..we got troubles.
    In football (different sport) Parcells used to beleive that the older vet ,…might be better, but by keeping them, they would stunt the development of the younger player. So in essence roster decisions were somewhat based on what was best for the future. To be fair I think in football it was more along the line of who keep as the 4th WR the wiley vet or the up and coming rookie. In basketball when only 7-9 guys make any signifcant contribution, your best options still maybe PP and KG.
    I’m in the camp of keeping KG and moving on from PP. But I realize they may come as a set. In other words if PP goes maybe KG hangs it up. It’s delicate right now and I’m not even factoring in Doc. I think they have to get a decision from him as it would effect on the type of players they bring in.
    My hunch…..they all go.

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