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The Red Sox bring baseball's best offense into town today. The O's will counter with rookie pitchers. Wilson starts. With Brach, O'Day and Britton nailing down the win yesterday Buck would probably like to go with rookies Bundy, Givens and Tolliver. Worley is probably unavailable after going 4.2 innings on Saturday.

Buck does have options. He can pitch any of Brach, O'Day or Britton for a second game in a row. Then they will not be available for Tuesday when Gausman starts.

McFarland could be called up today to give the O's a more experienced long reliever. Tolliver would probably be optioned.

Buck has no choice but to trust his rookie pitching in the four games vs the Red Sox. Its the question of how and when he decides to uses them that will be interesting. Rookie Mike Wright starts on Wednesday. Oddly enough all the rookies are in a better position to be successful than Jimenez who starts on Thursday.

There could be a lot of runs scored in this series.

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I don't anticipate that McFarland would be called up today. If he was, I would expect Flaherty to Norfolk because they'll need pitching.

I do think they held TJ out yesterday in case things get out of hand one day this week.

I am looking forward to seeing how Buck uses Tolliver this series, especially if Ortiz plays.

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Funny, but I like to play this game where I look at a thread title and try to guess who started it before I look at the "started by" line. For some reason, I can almost always pick out wildcard's. And they usually involve some pretty detailed point.

Anyway, good topic. The Red Sox have a terrific lineup and this is a very dangerous series for us.

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I doubt Buck will pitch Brach today. Buck tried to stretch him yesterday to face the lefties in the 8th. He did not get any outs but allowed a total of 3 baserunners and threw 27 pitches.

That leaves Givens-O'Day-Britton for a close game today. If all three are used, some combination of Tolliver-Givens-Brach if tomorrow is a close one. Hopefully we blow them out today and Bundy mops up a strong performance by Tyler Wilson.

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Am I wrong in thinking that nobody (esp. Britton and Oday) would really be off limits to pitch in the next two back to back if there's a 1 run lead in the 8th or 9th? I'm sure Buck would prefer not to use them, but with his back against a wall against the best competition in the division...

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Am I wrong in thinking that nobody (esp. Britton and Oday) would really be off limits to pitch in the next two back to back if there's a 1 run lead in the 8th or 9th? I'm sure Buck would prefer not to use them, but with his back against a wall against the best competition in the division...

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If he wanted Britton or ODay available for all games, I think he would be more likely to stretch Britton today, and then keep O'Day for tomorrow. Britton/Givens could combine for 3 innings today and then you would still have Brach/O'Day for 3 tomorrow. He will not pitch all three in back to back to back games.

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The Red Sox bring baseball's best offense into town today. The O's will counter with rookie pitchers. Wilson starts. With Brach, O'Day and Britton nailing down the win yesterday Buck would probably like to go with rookies Bundy, Givens and Tolliver. Worley is probably unavailable after going 4.2 innings on Saturday.

Buck does have options. He can pitch any of Brach, O'Day or Britton for a second game in a row. Then they will not be available for Tuesday when Gausman starts.

McFarland could be called up today to give the O's a more experienced long reliever. Tolliver would probably be optioned.

Buck has no choice but to trust his rookie pitching in the four games vs the Red Sox. Its the question of how and when he decides to uses them that will be interesting. Rookie Mike Wright starts on Wednesday. Oddly enough all the rookies are in a better position to be successful than Jimenez who starts on Thursday.

There could be a lot of runs scored in this series.

Actually, Ubaldo might not be starting on Thursday. The Sun lists "TBA or Ubaldo Jimenez" for Thursday's start.

It's going to be an interesting series. My 29-game plan includes both today and Thursday, so I'll be there.

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The Red Sox bring baseball's best offense into town today. The O's will counter with rookie pitchers. Wilson starts. With Brach, O'Day and Britton nailing down the win yesterday Buck would probably like to go with rookies Bundy, Givens and Tolliver. Worley is probably unavailable after going 4.2 innings on Saturday.

Buck does have options. He can pitch any of Brach, O'Day or Britton for a second game in a row. Then they will not be available for Tuesday when Gausman starts.

McFarland could be called up today to give the O's a more experienced long reliever. Tolliver would probably be optioned.

Buck has no choice but to trust his rookie pitching in the four games vs the Red Sox. Its the question of how and when he decides to uses them that will be interesting. Rookie Mike Wright starts on Wednesday. Oddly enough all the rookies are in a better position to be successful than Jimenez who starts on Thursday.

There could be a lot of runs scored in this series.

Hope the O's score a lot of runs. Would be great to beat the BoSox.

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I guess we got at least some of the answers about O's rookie pitching vs the Red Sox.

Wilson 6.2 IP. 3 ER ERA about 4.00

Tolliver 0.2 IP Big Poopy got him for a homer

Givens 1.2 IP Allowed a three run homer to rookie Hernandez.

Buck went with the rookie relievers and got burnt.

If Gausman pitches well Brach, O'Day and Britton will be available tomorrow. I am hoping for better results.

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