TBOH Phillies Pregame 4.9.15

BOSTON RED SOX (1 – 1) at PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (1 – 1)

CITIZENS BANK PARK

SCHEDULED START – 7:05PM EDT

PHILADELPHIA, PA

SCHEDULED STARTING PITCHERS:

Justin Masterson, Boston (7-9, 5.88 ERA, 1.632 WHIP, 116/69 K:BB, 141 hits over 128.2 IP across 28 games/25 starts with Cleveland and Saint Louis in 2014)

David Buchanan, Phillies (6-8, 3.75 ERA, 1.292 WHIP, 71/32 K:BB, 120 hits over 117.2 IP across 20 starts with Phils in 2014)

PHILLIES LOCAL MEDIA

TV coverage: The Comcast Network (TCN)

Radio: 1210AM WPHT, 94FM WIP, 1480AM (Spanish language)

WEATHER FORECAST

National Weather Service:

This Afternoon

Cloudy, with a high near 46. East wind around 8 mph.

Tonight

Rain likely, mainly between midnight and 2am, then areas of drizzle. Areas of fog after midnight. Otherwise, cloudy, with a low around 43. East wind 5 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

INJURIES

Phillies: Cliff Lee & Mario Hollands (60-day DL); Domonic Brown, Chad Billingsley, Jonathan Pettibone (15-day DL), Odubel Herrera (Day-to-day, sore left foot, came into yesterday’s game as defensive replacement in CF)

Boston: Christian Vazquez (our for season); Koji Uehara, Joe Kelly, Edwin Escobar (15-day DL)

NOTES

The Phils evened up the series with a nice win yesterday behind the pitching of Aaron Harang and hitting of Jeff Francoeur. Tonight’s weather will be similarly miserable.

An Atlanta native, Buchanan was the Phils 7th rounder in the 2010 Amateur Draft out of Georgia State. He rose methodically through the minors, going 6-2 with a 3.95 ERA at AAA-Lehigh Valley in a dozen starts last year before getting called up.

Masterson was actually born in Jamaica, but went to high school in Ohio. He was selected by the Red Sox in the 2nd round of the 2006 Amateur Draft, and appeared as a reliever in 9 games during the 2008 postseason. He was traded to Cleveland in the Victor Martinez deal in July 2009, and pitched 2 innings in their Wildcard Game loss to Tampa in 2013. The Tribe dealt him to the Cards at last year’s trade deadline, and then Boston signed him as a free agent in December.

Dom Brown, on the 15-day DL, will begin a rehab assignment tonight with the team’s High-A Clearwater Threshers affiliate. .

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