Saturday’s Red Sox-D’Backs lineups: Benintendi plays CF, Buchholz on mound

Rodriguez was 0 for 4, but did get an RBI on a dribbler off Ziegler with the bases loaded to cap the eighth-inning rally.

This will be game two of the set.

Buchholz was sharp early, but tailed off toward the end of his 41⁄3-inning outing as he gave up three hits, three runs (all earned), walked three and struck out one.

His first homer was a two-run shot in the first inning. Greinke is 2-4 in seven career games – six starts – against Boston despite owning a 2.83 ERA.Porcello is quietly becoming the ace of the staff and can tie Toronto’s J.A. Happ for the major-league lead with his 16th win on Sunday. He pitched eight innings of two-run ball with 11 strikeouts in a victory in 2010. (2-2) and Junichi Tazawa preceded Barnes. It will be Buchholz’s first start since July 2. “Still was making pretty good pitches that last inning”. Rickie Weeks gave the D-backs the lead 2-1 in the fourth with a RBI single.

Pedroia fought off a pitch from Arizona reliever Adam Loewen and drove it into center for an RBI single, while Betts smacked a trailing fastball from Loewen into the Monster Seats for a three-run blast. Jean Segura has posted 142 hits with 70 runs and 44 RBI. Pedroia, who moved into the club’s leadoff spot Wednesday night, went 6-for-16 with four doubles over the last four games.

Arizona Diamondbacks’ Archie Bradley walks on the mound after giving up a two-run home run to Boston Red Sox’s Brock Holt, left, during the sixth inning of a baseball game in Boston, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016.

That would reverse a 1-0 lead the Sox had taken in the third on singles from Sandy Leon, Andrew Benintendi, and Dustin Pedroia, and things would just get worse in the top of the fifth as Buchholz left with one out and one on having reached his pitch limit, with Robbie Ross Jr. letting the inherited runner score on a Michael Bourn ground ball single.

Red Sox: RHP Clay Buchholz (4-9, 5.64 ERA) gets the start as Wright continues to mend his injured shoulder. The Red Sox took advantage of some sloppy defensive play by Arizona, which committed two first-inning errors. RHP Rubby De La Rosa, out since May 25 with an elbow injury, suffered a setback with forearm tightness that will require an MRI. Both have won nine of their last 10 decisions.

Yankees: LHP C.C. Sabathia (6-9, 4.18 ERA) starts as the Yankees return to NY for a weekend series against Tampa Bay. Porcello is 11-0 in 12 home starts and bids to become the first Boston pitcher to start a season 12-0 at home since Dave Ferriss was 13-0 in 1946.

The flight to Cleveland will likely be a happy one with the Red Sox reminiscing about its 19 hits.

It didn’t look as if Hanley Ramirez would be able to lift a bat, let alone swing one on Thursday night after he was involved in scary collision late in Boston’s series finale loss to the New York Yankees.