Game 109: Red Sox at Dodgers lineups and notes

After taking three of four from the Athletics, the Red Sox will close out their California trip with a three-game series against the Dodgers.

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The Sox won their seventh consecutive series after rallying for a 5-4 win over the A’s on Thursday with back-to-back home runs in the eighth inning from Wilyer Abreu and Willson Contreras.

Ranger Suarez will get nod for Friday night’s opener. The lefthander delivered four scoreless innings against the Blue Jays on Sunday in his return from the injured list after recovering from a left groin strain and an illness. He allowed four hits with six strikeouts on 64 pitches.

“[For] three weeks I never stopped throwing,” Suarez said. “I wasn’t surprised I had my command.”

The Dodgers will send righthander Edgardo Henriquez to the mound in what is expected to be a bullpen game.

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Here is a preview.

RED SOX (57-51): TBA

Pitching: LHP Ranger Suarez (4-3, 3.02 ERA)

DODGERS (69-40): TBA

Pitching: RHP Edgardo Henriquez (4-1, 2.79 ERA)

Time: 10:10 p.m.

TV, radio: NESN, WEEI-FM 93.7

Red Sox vs. Henriquez: Connor Wong 0-1, Romy Gonzalez 0-1

Dodgers vs. Suarez: Mookie Betts 4-10, Alex Call 5-12, Tommy Edman 0-3, Freddie Freeman 6-16, Kiké Hernández 0-1, Teoscar Hernández 1-4, Max Muncy 1-8, Andy Pages 2-3, Miguel Rojas 6-20, Kyle Tucker 1-2

Stat of the day: The Red Sox have recorded an extra-base hit in 67 straight games, MLB’s longest active streak and the organization’s longest since 71 games in 2023.

Notes: In eight appearances (five starts) against the Dodgers, Suarez is 3-2 with 3.64 ERA. … The Red Sox are 20-3 since July 3 and 25-5 since June 25. … That matches the Sox’ best 30-game span in franchise history. The Sox also went 25-5 in 2018, 2004, 1993, 1955, 1950, 1948, 1942, 1915, and 1901. … The Dodgers are hoping to have Shohei Ohtani back in the lineup as designated hitter. A sore left knee and some right biceps tightness forced him out of the rotation since the return from the All-Star break, but not from the designated hitter spot until Thursday. … “The last couple days he’s been on base a lot more, so I think that’s been a good thing in one sense whereas the last part of the [recent] road trip he wasn’t,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “So there might have been a little something to that.”

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Material from Field Level Media was used in this story.