As Sean McAdam noted earlier today: Games like today's are why the Red Sox signed David Price.
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After Thursday's 5-4 loss in Cleveland, the Sox send Price to the mound against Corey Kluber in attempt to even the best-of-five series at 1-1. Being down 0-2 is not necessarily a death warrant -- the Sox came back after losing the first two games to win both the 1999 ALDS against the Indians and the 2003 ALDS against the A's -- but it's a hole that, most times, you don't crawl out of . . . and so you would do well to avoid falling into it in the first place.
One other note: The streaky Jackie Bradley Jr. -- incapable of making an out when he's hot, barely able to put his bat on the ball when he's cold -- is in one of his cold spells, so John Farrell has dropped him back to No. 9 in the order. Andrew Benintendi has been moved up to the seventh spot.
Today's lineups:
RED SOX:
Dustin Pedroia 2B
Brock Holt 3B
Mookie Betts RF
David Ortiz DH
Hanley Ramirez 1B
Xander Bogaerts SS
Andrew Benintendi LF
Sandy Leon C
Jackie Bradley Jr. CF
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David Price P
INDIANS:
Rajai Davis CF
Jason Kipnis 2B
Francisco Lindor SS
Mike Napoli 1B
Carlos Santana DH
Jose Ramirez 3B
Brandon Guyer LF
Lonnie Chisenhall RF
Roberto Perez C
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Corey Kluber P