Red Sox Vs. Rays Lineups: Rookie Gets Rare Start In Finale
The Red Sox look to earn a series win Thursday, as they take on the Tampa Bay Rays in the season-series finale at Tropicana Field.
Nick Sogard will have a shot at helping out in his return to the lineup.
Red Sox manager Alex Cora is switching things up, rolling out a completely different looking lineup after he rolled with the same unit in back-to-back games to open the series. Sogard and Danny Jansen are the only additions, but Trevor Story, Triston Casas and Wilyer Abreu will all shuffle around the order.
Jarren Duran, Rafael Devers, Tyler O'Neill and Masataka Yoshida will hold onto their spots at the top of the lineup, though Story will slide up from eighth to fifth, Casas will move up from seventh to sixth and Abreu will fall from sixth to eighth.
Connor Wong and Ceddanne Rafaela will get the night off.
The Sox and Rays are scheduled to take the field in St. Petersburgh, Fla. at 6:50 p.m. ET, and the action can be seen on NESN following an hour of pregame coverage. We've got the projected lineups here.
BOSTON RED SOX (76-76)
Jarren Duran, CF
Rafael Devers, 3B
Tyler O'Neill, LF
Masataka Yoshida, DH
Trevor Story, SS
Triston Casas, 1B
Danny Jansen, C
Wilyer Abreu, RF
Nick Sogard, 2B
Brayan Bello, RHP (14-7, 4.60 ERA)
TAMPA BAY RAYS (74-78)
Dylan Carlson, LF
Brandon Lowe, 2B
Yandy Díaz, DH
Jonathan Aranda, 1B
Josh Lowe, RF
José Caballero, 3B
Ben Rortvedt, C
Taylor Walls, SS
Jose Siri, CF
Zack Littell, RHP (7-9, 3.73 ERA)