The Red Sox, their bats awakened in the Friday Texas twilight, will look to take the series lead against the Rangers behind Eduardo Rodriguez tonight in Arlington (7:05 p.m., NESN, MLBN out-of-market).
E-Rod looks to continue a run of increasingly great starts, which, after his COVID-19 and myocarditis diagnoses last year, are something of a miracle, writes FanGraphs’s Carmen Ciardiello:
He has come back and become a markedly more aggressive pitcher. So far the strategy has worked and helped him get to those precious two-strike counts, a vital step to posting a higher strikeout rate.