Boston at Tampa Bay

The Red Sox have gotten through their bad stretch and appear to be destined to run off a streak of good baseball. It started with three straight wins vs. the White Sox and continued as they took three of four from Cleveland on the road. Tim Wakefield has owned Tampa Bay as he is 16-2 in his career vs. the D-Rays! Jason Hammel has been converted to a starter and went only 4 innings in his only other start. He has not built the arm strength to go long which means the D-Ray pen will be exposed for a long duration in this one. The Rays are just 5-23 in their last 28 games and have played about as bad as it gets. We look for the Sox to take the opener tonight.