The Baltimore Orioles host the 2013 A.L. East Champion Boston Red Sox on Friday night as baseball gets ready to play its last series of the regular season. Watch the game free online as MLB.TV brings you all the action for free.
It will be a tough matchup for the Orioles, though they will have a pretty good pitcher on the mound. Midseason acquisition, Scott Feldman, takes the mound posting a 5-5 record and 3.57 ERA in 14 starts this season. Feldman has pitched well since joining the club, though he took the loss in his last start after going 6.1 innings of three-run baseball against the Tampa Bay Rays. Feldman has not won a game since his first start of the month and the Orioles will attempt to find a way to slow down their A.L. East foe.
Clay Buchholz takes the hill for the Red Sox and the man has been unstoppable. Three month layoff? No problem. Buchholz is 2-1 in his three starts this month, allowing only two earned runs in 17 innings pitched. He is a little wild, which should give the Orioles hope, but he finds a way to get out of innings and his ERA is currently an amazing 1.60 after 15 starts this season.
The Red Sox remember Camden Yards very well in September. It was just two years ago where they missed the postseason as the Orioles mounted a rally late in the game, defeating the Red Sox and keeping them from making the playoffs. It was an embarrassing end to their month and to their season after blowing a huge lead in the A.L. and eventually losing the Wild Card to the Rays as they rallied past the New York Yankees.
However, 2013 has been a completely different year. The Red Sox come into this matchup with the best record in baseball at 96-63. A 100-win season will be impossible, but the Red Sox are going back to the playoffs after missing the cut for October baseball in back-to-back seasons.
