Friday night the fun starts! The New York Yankees will make their first appearance in Fenway Park throwing Joba Chamberlain against our young lefty stud John Lester. Chamberlain will be making his first start of the season instead of Chien Ming Wang.
The Red Sox will becoming into the weekend series VERY hot. They have a 7 game winning streak including yesterdays sweep of a double header. The Yankees come in with a 3 game winning streak including yesterdays 14 inning slug fest that ended in a Melky Cabrera home run.
It will be interesting to see how the Yankees do playing in Fenway Park instead of their new launching pad ballpark. The first home stand has seen 26 home runs leave the new Yankee stadium in only 6 games. 17 of those homers were hit to right field or right-center field. Some of those would just be pop flies in Fenway Park.
The pitching match ups looks like this:
Friday 7:10 : NYY Joba Chamberlain (0-0, 5.06 ERA) VS. BOS John Lester (1-2, 5.50 ERA)
John Lester was supposed to pitch on Saturday but because of Becketts 5 game suspention and a off day they flipped Lester and Beckett so Beckett would not miss a start.
Saturday 4:10 : NYY A.J Burnett (2-0, 3.20 ERA) VS. BOS Josh Beckett (2-1, 3.79 ERA)
Best Match up of the series with former Florida Marlins teammates facing off. Josh Beckett was supposed to miss this series because of a 6 game suspention but MLB changed it to 5 games.
Sunday 8:05 : NYY Andy Pettitte (2-0, 2.35 ERA) VS. BOS Justin Masterson (1-0, 3.18 ERA)
Masterson will be making his 2nd start of the season in place of Daisuke Matsuzaka who was the first major casualty of the World Baseball Classic.
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