Tonight at 7:05 p.m. ET, the Boston Red Sox (60-77) and New York Yankees (70-65) take the field at Yankee Stadium to kick off a three-game set live from the Bronx. The game can be live streamed here. Boston fans can hear all of the action on WEEI 93.7 while New York fans can do the same on 101.9 WFAN.
Boston continues a seven-game road trip it is currently 4-3 on while New York opens up a nine-game homestand after posting a 3-4 mark on its recent seven-game road swing.
The Yankees enter play four games out of the final wild-card spot in the AL that is currently being held by the Detroit Tigers and have the Seattle Mariners and Cleveland Indians in front of them. The Bronx Bombers are in second place in the AL East, 8.5 games behind the division-leading Baltimore Orioles while the Red Sox are in dead last, 19.5 games out.
Joe Kelly (2-3, 4.14 ERA) takes the mound still in search of his first win for Boston while New York counters with rookie Shane Greene, who is 4-1 with a 2.09 ERA.
The Red Sox will likely be without Dustin Pedroia, who continues to battle a concussion and likely won't make an appearance in this series.
"He still has some of the symptoms," said manager John Farrell via MLB.com. "So this is clearly a day-to-day thing. We're probably at least another day from any kind of exertion test or any kind of ramping up of the heart rate to see if there's still some residual [symptoms]. But he's sore where the impact took place on the side of the head. As I mentioned the other day, we'll be cautious with this."
Pedroia is batting .280 with seven homers and 51 RBI thus far this season. Boston's lineup has been flanked by designated hitter David Ortiz, who ranks third in the AL with 95 RBI and fifth with 30 long-balls. Brock Holt leads the team with a .287 batting average.
Yankees outfielder and former Boston player Jacoby Ellsbury is expected to be back in the lineup despite dealing with a sore left ankle this weekend.
"He wants to play, he's a competitor," manager Joe Girardi said per MLB.com. "All these guys want to play when they are beat up. That's the way you want players to be, but sometimes you have to help make decisions for them."
Ellsbury, the reigning AL Player of the Week, is hitting a team-best .288 with 14 long-balls and a team-high 64 RBI thus far this season and ranks second in the AL with 37 stolen bases. First baseman Mark Teixeira paces New York with 20 homers thus far this season.
Tuesday night marks the final time that Yankees shortstop and captain Derek Jeter will take on the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. Jeter closes out the regular season, and possibly his career depending how the races end up, with one last visit to Fenway Park later this month.
Two AL East rivals go head-to-head when the Red Sox and Yankees take the field tonight at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx.
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