The Red Sox continue to fight for their postseason spot on Thursday when they head to Yankee Stadium for the start of a four-game series against the New York Yankees.
Red Sox manager Alex Cora is also following a current trend.
Boston will have six right-handers in the lineup on Thursday, with Romy Gonzalez and Danny Jansen all returning to face left-handed starter Nestor Cortes.
Triston Casas, Masataka Yoshida and Rob Refsnyder – who was left out of the squad at the last minute – will initially sit on the bench.
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Ceddanne Rafaela will move from second base to center field, while Jarren Duran will move from center to left field. Tyler O’Neil will be the DH. Connor Wong will get more work at first base, while Jansen will serve as catcher.
The Sox and Yanks are scheduled to square off in the Bronx at 7:15 p.m. ET. The action can be seen on NESN following an hour of pregame coverage. Projected lineups can be found here.
BOSTON RED SOX (74-72)
Jarren Duran, LF
Rafael Devers, 3B
Romy Gonzalez, 2B
Tyler O’Neill, DH
Connor Wong, 1B
Trevor Story, SS
Danny Jansen, C
Wilyer Abreu, RF
Ceddanne Rafaela, CF
Cooper Criswell, RHP (6-4, 4.11 ERA)
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NEW YORK YANKEES (83-63)
Gleyber Torres, 2B
Juan Soto, RF
Aaron Judge, CF
Austin Wells, C
Giancarlo Stanton, DH
Jazz Chisholm Jr., 3B
Jason Domínguez, LF
Anthony Rizzo, 1B
Anthony Volpe, SS
Nestor Cortes, LHP (9-10, 3.97 ERA)
