BOSTON - The Red Sox and Orioles are back in action on Saturday after Boston's 7-0 win Friday night.
Rich Hill pitched a complete game shutout and David Ortiz drove in three runs as the Sox improved to 6-11 against the Orioles this season.
But Saturday's game should be a bit tougher for the Red Sox.
The Sox will use a bullpen committee beginning with Craig Breslow, who gets the start.
The 35-year-old Breslow is making his first start in 523 career major league games. According to Elias, he will pass Scott Atchison as the oldest ever Red Sox pitcher at the time of his first career major league start. Atchison did it at 34 years, 75 days old on Jun. 12, 2010 against the Phillies.
Due to injuries to the staff and the fact the team is using a six-man rotation to limit innings for their young pitchers, they are short one starting pitcher as the season winds down.
Not only are the Sox missing a starting pitcher, they're missing David Ortiz, who gets the day off.
Dustin Pedroia will take over as the team's DH, and Josh Rutledge gets the start at second base.
Travis Shaw slides into the cleanup spot.
Here's the lineup:
RED SOX
Mookie Betts, RF
Dustin Pedroia, DH
Xander Bogaerts, SS
Travis Shaw, 1B
Rusney Castillo, LF
Brock Holt, 3B
Josh Rutledge, 2B
Blake Swihart, C
Jackie Bradley, Jr., CF
Craig Breslow, LHP
ORIOLES
Nolan Reimold, CF
Ryan Flaherty, LF
Manny Machado, 3B
Chris Davis, DH
Steve Pearce, 1B
Matt Wieters, C
Jonathan Schoop, 2B
Gerardo Parra, RF
J.J. Hardy, SS
Wei-Yin Chen, LHP