As the Boston Red Sox kick off one of the more important series of their season, Rick Porcello will be without his quasi-personal catcher.
The Red Sox and New York Yankees begin a four-game set at Fenway Park on Thursday night, and it’ll be Christian Vazquez, not Sandy Leon, catching the 2016 Cy Young winner.
With Vazquez, who has swung a hot bat pretty much all season, in the lineup, the Red Sox won’t have any changes in personnel or position from Wednesday’s loss to the Tampa Bay Rays. The only change will be Brock Holt sliding up to sixth in the order, bumping Mitch Moreland and Vazquez down one spot, each.
Masahiro Tanaka gets the ball for the Yankees.
Here are the lineups for Thursday’s Red Sox-Yankees game:
BOSTON RED SOX (56-47)
Mookie Betts, RF
Rafael Devers, 3B
Xander Bogaerts, SS
J.D. Martinez, DH
Andrew Benintendi, LF
Brock Holt, 2B
Mitch Moreland, 1B
Christian Vazquez, C
Jackie Bradley Jr., CF
Rick Porcello, RHP (8-7, 5.61 ERA)
NEW YORK YANKEES (66-35)
DJ LeMahieu, 3B
Aaron Judge, RF
Aaron Hicks, CF
Edwin Encarnacion, DH
Didi Gregorius, SS
Luke Voit, 1B
Gleyber Torres, 2B
Mike Tauchman, LF
Kyle Higashioka, C
Masahiro Tanaka, RHP (7-5, 4.00 ERA)
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