Red Sox starting pitcher Jon Lester is 11-7 with a 3.07 ERA in 22 starts this season, but the club has dropped his last four outings.\u00a0 Over that span, he has allowed 17 runs and 31 hits over 26.2 innings of work, but has also garnered 30 strikeouts.\u00a0 The left-hander is 5-3 with a 3.00 ERA in 10 road starts this season, giving up just two home runs in 66 frames.\u00a0 He will be making just his sixth daytime start, going 2-3 with a 4.11 ERA, while posting a 9-4 mark and 2.74 ERA in 17 nighttime outings.\u00a0 In 10 career starts versus the Yankees, Lester has a 4-1 record and 4.01 ERA, including picking up a 9-3 home win in his last start against them on May 9.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n New York improved its record to 7-4 against the Red Sox with last night\u2019s win, as the teams will not play each other again until September 24 after today\u2019s game.\u00a0 Starting pitcher Dustin Moseley filled in for A.J. Burnett in Sunday\u2019s 7-2 win, impressing manager Joe Girardi with his performance.\u00a0 \u201cHe attacked the zone and he allowed his defense to play behind him,\u201d Girardi said after the game.\u00a0 Offensively, the Yankees are the first AL team to have five players with at least 50 runs and 50 RBIs.\u00a0 Before last night\u2019s performance, the offense had managed to score just 3.7 runs and hit for a combined .217 average in its previous seven games.\u00a0 The Yankees will be a home underdog of +100 to +125 for the first time this season and just the 11th time in the last three years (4-6, -170).\u00a0 New York is 22-15 this year versus left-handed starters (-180) and 87-57 the last three seasons (+190).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Yankees starting pitcher Phil Hughes is 13-4 with a 3.96 ERA in 20 starts this season, with the club alternating wins and losses in his last five outings.\u00a0 In those games, he has\u00a0 allowed 14 runs and 29 hits over 28.2 innings of work.\u00a0 The right-hander has produced a solid 8-2 record at home in 12 starts, but carries a high 4.94 ERA.\u00a0 He has been bitten by the long ball at Yankee Stadium, giving up 15 home runs in 71 innings.\u00a0 Hughes will be making his seventh daytime start, posting a perfect 5-0 record and 4.21 ERA under the sun this year.\u00a0 In 10 career appearances (four starts) versus the Red Sox, he is 1-2 with a 6.48 ERA, including a 1-0 mark and 5.25 ERA in two starts this year.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Bettors will find the Red Sox being 36-16 in Lester\u2019s last 52 starts versus the division and the over cashing in four of his last five outings against the East.\u00a0 The Yankees are 17-4 in Hughes\u2019 last 21 home starts and the total is 9-2 O\/U in his last 11 outings at Yankee Stadium.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Red Sox are hoping to earn a split in this four-game series and see their talented left-hander bounce back from a bad stretch. 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Boston will try to salvage a split in this four-game series after dropping the last two contests, including a 7-2 defeat last night on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball.\u00a0 \u201cThis was a huge opportunity for us, trying to gain ground on these guys and Tampa Bay,\u201d said third baseman Adrian Beltre.\u00a0 \u201cBut unfortunately it didn\u2019t work out the way we wanted.\u201d\u00a0 The Red Sox are now seven games back of the Yankees and 4.5 away in the Wild Card race.\u00a0 The club is now an even 4-4 this month (-340) and 38-25 in August the last three years (+780).\u00a0 Boston has also slipped up against divisional foes in 2010, posting a 21-22 record (-530), with the total being 24-17 O\/U in those games.\u00a0 The banged up ball\u00a0 club did receive some encouraging news over the weekend, as second baseman Dustin Pedroia (left foot) has plans of returning to the lineup on August 17<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n