After a day of rest, Brock Holt and Hanley Ramirez are back in the Boston Red Sox’s lineup.
The Red Sox traveled to Chicago on Monday to open a three-game series with the White Sox, and Holt and Ramirez will get right back to work. Ramirez will man his usual spot in left field and bat sixth, while Jackie Bradley Jr. takes a seat. Holt, who was scratched from the lineup Sunday with oblique tightness, will play second base and bat seventh.
Right fielder Rusney Castillo and catcher Ryan Hanigan were bumped down to the eighth and ninth spots, respectively, with the lineup change.
Joe Kelly will be on the bump for the Red Sox, and he’ll be looking to stay undefeated in the month of August. The right-hander has allowed only one earned run in each of his last two outings and has managed to bring his ERA down to 5.37 from where it stood at the beginning of the month at 6.11.
Here are both teams’ lineups for Monday’s contest.
RED SOX (56-68)
Mookie Betts, CF
Pablo Sandoval, 3B
Xander Bogaerts, SS
David Ortiz, DH
Travis Shaw, 1B
Hanley Ramirez, LF
Brock Holt, 2B
Rusney Castillo, RF
Ryan Hanigan, C
Joe Kelly, RHP (6-6, 5.37 ERA)
WHITE SOX (58-64)
Adam Eaton, CF
Jose Abreu, DH
Melky Cabrera, LF
Avisail Garcia, RF
Adam LaRoche, 1B
Alexei Ramirez, SS
Carlos Sanchez, 2B
Tyler Flowers, C
Tyler Saladino, 3B
Jeff Samardzija, RHP (8-9, 4.64 ERA)
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