The surging Red Sox face the Orioles this afternoon at 1:05 p.m. in the first of approximately 476 meetings between the two teams this year, and about the 20,000th time overall.
In honor of facing Baltimore, today is the first day the Sox are giving virtually all the likely regulars a rest, with a more traditional spring training lineup set to take the field. After yesterday, the headliner has to be Bombin’ Bobby Dalbec, who’s back in action and batting cleanup after his pair of home runs yesterday. Jarren Duran is in center and batting second, which I suspect you will hear more and more as the season goes on.