The Red Sox can make it six straight victories tonight behind Nick Pivetta as they square off with Dylan Cease and the fightin’ Chicago White Sox (8:10 p.m., NESN).
Pivetta is coming off his best start in a Red Sox uniform, a complete-game two-hitter to shut down the Houston Astros, and he’ll need every bit of that guile to get past a White Sox offense that has struggled at times this year but has talent to spare. The good news is that he’s not riding a one-game streak—he’s been lights out his last three starts, pitching 22 innings and giving up only 2 runs with 20:1 K:BB ratio.