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Game 76 Preview: Tampa Bay Rays vs Boston Red Sox

The Rays hope to win their second game in a row for the first time in two weeks

Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports

TODAY'S STARTING PITCHERS:

2016 W L ERA FIP K% BB% AVG BABIP HR GS IP fWAR
Rick Porcello 8 2 3.93 4.07 20.8% 4.6% .243 .280 13 15 94 1.2
Chris Archer 4 10 4.70 4.32 26.6% 9.6% .253 .317 16 16 92.0 0.9

Chris Archer's last five starts have all been very similar, not awful, but not up to Chris Archer's 2015 standards. Over those five starts, Archer is allowing an average of three earned runs a game while pitching just over six innings per game. His last time out was on the 22nd against the Indians as he allowed four runs on six hits, walking two and striking out five over six innings of work.

Rick Porcello Scouting Report:

Porcelle has just been cruising along this season. He hasn't really been lit up by opposing offenses, but he hasn't been dominant either. His last time out was his second shortest start of the season as he allowed four runs on eight hits, while he walked one and struck out two, after pitching one out into the sixth inning.

His Arsenal:

PITCH AVG. VELO. FREQUENCY
Fastball 92.7 MPH

18.3% vs LHB

***

12.9% vs RHB

Sinker 90.2 MPH

42.4% vs LHB

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53.5% vs RHB

Cutter 86.1 MPH

5.8% vs LHB

***

10.5% vs RHB

Slider 85.0 MPH

1.7% vs LHB

***

6.5% vs RHB

Change-up 81.8 MPH

17.4% vs LHB

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7.3% vs RHB

Curveball 74.4 MPH

14.2% vs LHB

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9.05% vs RHB

His Splits:

2016 TBF wOBA AVG OBP SLG HR K% BB%
vs LHB 212 .276 .227 .281 .347 5 21.2% 5.7%
vs RHB 177 .345 .262 .316 .497 8 20.3% 3.4%
HOME 179 .299 .242 .303 .380 4 22.9% 3.9%
AWAY 210 .315 .244 .292 .444 9 19.1% 5.2%

Today's Lineups

BOSTON RED SOX TAMPA BAY RAYS
Mookie Betts - RF Logan Forsythe - 2B
Dustin Pedroia - 2B Brad Miller - SS
David Ortiz - DH Evan Longoria - 3B
Hanley Ramirez - 1B Logan Morrison - 1B
Jackie Bradley - CF Desmond Jennings - CF
Travis Shaw - 3B Oswaldo Arcia - RF
Bryce Brentz - LF Taylor Motter - LF
Christian Vazquez - C Nick Franklin - DH
Marco Hernandez - SS Hank Conger - C
Rick Porcello - RHP Chris Archer - RHP