BSJ Live Coverage: Red Sox 0 at Athletics 1 (3rd) - Mead makes Red Sox debut in Sacramento

WHO: Red Sox (54-50) vs Athletics (44-61)
WHEN: 9:40 p.m.
WHERE: Sutter Health Park, Sacramento
SERIES TO DATE: (0-0), (0-0)
STARTING PITCHERS: LHP Payton Tolle (5-6, 3.31 ERA) vs. RHP Jack Perkins (2-5, 6.75 ERA)
TV/RADIO: NESN, MLB Network, WEEI-FM 93.7

LINEUPS

RED SOX

Masataka Yoshida (L) DH
Curtis Mead (R) 2B
Willson Contreras (R) 1B
Wilyer Abreu (L) RF
Ceddanne Rafaela (R) CF
Caleb Durbin (R) 3B
Jarren Duran (L) LF
Andruw Monasterio (R) SS
Connor Wong (R) C

SP Payton Tolle

ATHLETICS

Jacob Wilson (R) SS
Tyler Soderstrom (L) DH
Jonah Heim (S) C
Colby Thomas (R) LF
Tommy White (R) 3B
Jeff McNeil (L) 1B
Henry Bolte (R) CF

Alika Williams (R) 2B
Lawrence Butler (L) RF

SP Jack Perkins

WHAT'S UP

The Boston Red Sox travel out west for the third time this season taking on the Athletics in a four game series.

Curtis Mead makes his Red Sox debut two days after being traded from the Washington Nationals. Mead will play second base and bat second in the order. Ceddanne Rafaela, who made his previous 51 starts at the second spot in the lineup will bat fifth.

Interim manager Chad Tracy flipped Willson Contreras and Wilyer Abreu in the lineup. Contreras usually is the cleanup hitter, but he’ll bat third. Abreu usually bats third, but he’ll bat fourth.