Game 55: Braves at Red Sox lineups and notes

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Game 55: Braves at Red Sox lineups and notes

We’ve got day baseball!

Well, kind of. With the Red Sox set to travel to Cleveland for a three-game series beginning Friday, first pitch for Thursday’s finale with the Braves is 4:10 p.m.

The Sox will be going for the series win after shutting out Atlanta, 8-0, on Wednesday to split the first two games. Connelly Early picked up the win after allowing just four hits and striking out seven in seven innings.

A victory would give the Sox just their second series win at home. They are 1-6-1 at Fenway Park this season.

It will be a matchup of lefthanders in the finale. The Sox will send Payton Tolle to the mound, while the Braves will counter with a familiar face in Chris Sale, now in his third season with Atlanta after spending the previous seven with the Sox.

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Lineups

BRAVES (37-19): TBA

Pitching: LHP Chris Sale (7-3, 1.89 ERA)

RED SOX (23-31): TBA

Pitching: LHP Payton Tolle (2-2, 2.45 ERA)

Time: 4:10 p.m.

TV, radio: NESN, WEEI-FM 93.7

Braves vs. Tolle: Ozzie Albies 0-3, Mauricio Dubón 0-3, Michael Harris II 0-3, Ha-Seong Kim 0-3, Sandy León 0-3, Matt Olson 0-3, Austin Riley 0-3

Red Sox vs. Sale: Wilyer Abreu 0-2, Willson Contreras 1-6, Jarren Duran 3-5, Caleb Durbin 0-3, Isiah Kiner-Falefa 1-5, Andruw Monasterio 0-3, Carlos Narváez 0-2, Ceddanne Rafaela 1-4, Nick Sogard 2-3, Connor Wong 2-3

Stat of the day: Tolle owns the second-lowest ERA among MLB rookies with at least 35 innings pitched. Cleveland’s Parker Messick is first with a 2.24 ERA.

Notes: Tolle faced the Braves earlier this season, tossing a career-best eight innings while allowing just two runs on four hits in a 3-2 win at Atlanta on May 16. … He has allowed three runs or fewer in eight of his nine career starts, including each of his six this season. … Jarren Duran has homered in each of the last two games. He is batting .357 with a .429 OBP and a 1.191 OPS over his last 10 games. … Isiah Kiner-Falefa has an RBI in four straight games, tying a career-long streak. … Sale is 4-1 with a 1.89 ERA in 12 appearances (seven starts) against the Red Sox. … He’s allowed one run or fewer in eight of his 10 starts, including his most recent outing, a seven-inning performance against the Marlins in which he surrendered just one run in a win on May 20.