The Red Sox look to break out of a mini-funk tonight as they face the hard-throwing rookie Hunter Greene behind Garrett Whitlock tonight at Fenway Park (7:10 p.m., NESN).
Greene comes into the game with a 5.89 ERA, which is not good, but—and Nathan Eovaldi can relate—a hefty chunk of that comes from one terrible start against the Brewers over which he gave up 8 runs in just 2.2 innings. He notably pitched 7.1 hitless innings in the team’s loss to a no-hit Pirates team and throws absolute heat, ranking in the top 10 of average fastball speed as a starter, which is hard to do.