Quick: who has started the most Opening Day games in Red Sox history? This topic came up on the most recent episode of Pod on Lansdowne and the answer... probably won’t surprise you. It’s Roger Clemens, who just edges out Pedro Martinez with eight opening day starts to Pedro’s seven. But what did surprise me was learning that Nate Eovaldi is fairly high up on the list with three Opening Day starts. That’s the same number of starts made by some more heralded Sox pitchers like Smoky Joe Wood, Babe Ruth, and Luis Tiant, and it’s more than Chris Sale, Josh Becket, Jim Lonborg, and Lefty Grove, amongst others.
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