Red Sox lineup:
After a winning road trip (4-3) against the Baltimore Orioles and Houston Astros, the Red Sox are back home for the last Fenway Friday of August.
They open up a weekend series with the defending National League champion Arizona Diamondbacks. It’s a homecoming for their manager, Torey Lovullo, and general manager Mike Hazen. Lovullo was Boston’s bench coach from 2013-16, and stepped in as interim manager when then-skipper John Farrell underwent treatment for lymphoma late in the 2015 season.
Hazen, a Massachusetts native, began his Red Sox tenure as director of player development in February 2006. In September 2015, then-president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski promoted him to general manager. A year later, Hazen left the Red Sox to assume his current role atop the Diamondbacks baseball ops department.
The Diamondbacks are 72-56 entering Friday, four games back from the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West. They hold the top NL Wild Card.
At 67-59, the Red Sox are third in the American League East, seven games out of first, and three-and-a-half games out of the third AL Wild Card.
Red Sox lineup
Jarren Duran CF
Wilyer Abreu RF
Triston Casas 1B
Rafael Devers 3B
Tyler O’Neill LF
Masataka Yoshida DH
Danny Jansen C
David Hamilton 2B
Ceddanne Rafaela SS
Brayan Bello RHP
Diamondbacks lineup
Check back later for the Diamondbacks lineup.
How to watch Diamondbacks vs. Red Sox
When: 7:10 p.m. ET
Where: Fenway Park
Broadcast info: NESN, WEEI 93.7 FM, WCCM 1490 AM (Spanish)