Tim Wakefield Takes Mound for Red Sox Looking for Win No. 200

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Aug 3, 2011

Jacoby Ellsbury evened the four-game series with the Indians Tuesday night with his walk-off single.

On Wednesday, Tim Wakefield will take the mound with a chance to take control of the series for the Red Sox and pick up career win 200.

With Wakefield on the mound, that means that Jarrod Saltalamacchia, who scored the winning run Tuesday, will catch. He'll bat seventh against Cleveland starter Carlos Carrasco. Ellsbury leads things off again and will play center field.

Meanwhile, Marco Scutaro gets back into the lineup tonight after newly acquired Mike Aviles got the start at shortstop Tuesday. Josh Reddick also returns to the starting nine after Darnell McDonald played right field on Tuesday. Reddick will hit eighth and play right.

Carrasco is a pretty unfamiliar face to the Red Sox lineup, as they Sox have just 16 combined at-bats against the right-hander.

Wakefield is 12-8 against Cleveland in his career with a 4.05 ERA. Here's the lineup behind Wakefield.

Red Sox
Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
Dustin Pedroia, 2B
Adrian Gonzalez, 1B
Kevin Youkilis, 3B
David Ortiz, DH
Carl Crawford, LF
Jarrod Saltalamacchia, C
Josh Reddick, RF
Marco Scutaro, SS

Indians
Ezequiel Carrera, CF
Jason Kipnis, 2B
Asdrubal Cabrera, SS
Travis Hafner, DH
Carlos Santana, 1B
Kosuke Fukudome, RF
Lonnie Chisenhall, 3B
Austin Kearns, LF
Lou Marson, C

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