The Red Sox and White Sox suit up for the first of two 7-inning games today (1:10 p.m., NESN) as Tanner Houck makes his second start of the the year for first-place Boston.
A day after a victory in the Boston Marathon-themed journeys they’ll head back out in blue and gold again, hoping for more of this:
Except from someone else, because he’s not in the lineup.
The White Sox will counter on the mound with Dallas Keuchel, the former Cy Young Award winner who has historically kept his numbers low by keeping hitters off balance in what we’d call a near-perfect example of the “crafty lefty” phenomenon.