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<\/a>New York is coming off a solid 4-3 home win on Thursday night over the Minnesota Twins by receiving three perfect innings by its bullpen in the final frames.\u00a0 The Yankees have used the recipe of pitching Joba Chamberlain, Rafael Soriano and Mariano Rivera starting in the seventh inning in three of their four victories.\u00a0 The team will be playing its first road game of the season today due to playing 12 of its first 15 games at Yankee Stadium.\u00a0 Today\u2019s game will mark the sixth time in the last four seasons that the Yankees have played in their opposition\u2019s home opener, posting a 1-4 mark in those games.\u00a0 New York is 84-61 against division opponents the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n
Yankees starting pitcher Phil Hughes will be making his second start of the season and 14th career appearance (seventh start) against the Red Sox.\u00a0 The right hander has made 12 starts during the month of April in his career, going 3-6 with a 5.80 ERA.\u00a0 Hughes has tallied a 9-3 record and 3.63 ERA in day games over the last three years since the 2009 campaign.\u00a0 New York has been accustomed to scoring runs when he\u2019s on the mound, receiving 7.49 runs per nine innings last season, which was the highest such mark among qualifying pitchers in baseball.\u00a0 He has a 2-3 record and 4.97 ERA in six career starts against Boston, including a 2-1 mark and 6.00 ERA in two outings at Fenway Park.<\/p>\n
Boston is starting to hear such statistics like only two teams in history have started 0-6 and went on to reach the playoffs after Wednesday\u2019s 1-0 loss on the road to Cleveland.\u00a0 \u201cThe record is what it is, but I don\u2019t want us to have a hangover,\u201d said manager Terry Francona.\u00a0 \u201cWe need to pick it up.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to play a good team now.\u201d\u00a0 The Red Sox have started 0-6 three times in club history and has lost seven or more contests to begin a season only once, when starting 0-8 in 1945.\u00a0 The team\u2019s vaunted lineup is managing to hit just .181 collectively and the pitching staff has posted a 7.13 ERA thus far during the 2011 campaign.\u00a0 Boston is 102-62 at home the past two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n
Red Sox starting pitcher John Lackey took the loss in his first start of the season at Texas, giving up nine runs and 10 hits.\u00a0 The right-hander also allowed a career-high seven extra base hits in just 3 2\/3 innings.\u00a0 It was a surprising result when considering he tied for the team lead with two wins during spring and went 2-1 with a 3.43 ERA over five Grapefruit League starts.\u00a0 Lackey faced the Yankees three times last year, going 1-1 with a 3.20 ERA.<\/p>\n
Bettors are likely going to back the Red Sox due to being 12-4 in Lackey\u2019s last 16 home starts, while the Yankees are 0-4 on the road with Hughes on the hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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