I communicated this via Twitter as well, but apparently none of you tweet. Either that, or you just don’t want to tweet with me (@SportsPulse), but that is neither here nor there. The Red Sox kick off their final game of this west coast trip this afternoon at 3:30 with Josh Beckett on the mound and he is going to have quite the task in front of him. Lineups have been posted and there is no JD, no Jed, and Tito said both Papelbon and Bard are unavailable. So we pretty much need a no hitter from Josh Beckett on this one. For once, I’m not that upset that I have to miss the game because of work.

1. Marco Scutaro, SS
2. Darnell McDonald, RF
3. Kevin Youkilis, 1B
4. David Ortiz, DH
5. Victor Martinez, C
6. Adrian Beltre, 3B
7. Jeremy Hermida, LF
8. Bill Hall, 2B
9. Eric Patterson, CF

RHP–Josh Beckett