The Red Sox face the surprising Robbie Ray and the Blue Jays tonight in Buffalo looking to build on Monday night’s performance behind the beleaguered Garrett Richards (7:07 p.m., NESN).
Last night’s rainout was extremely convenient for the Blue Jays in the short term, as it allowed them to bypass emergency starter Thomas Hatch and get back on schedule with Ray, who’s having the best season of his peripatetic career after his recent discovery of the strike zone. It took him about a decade, but he finally found it, and that works well when you can throw really hard and are a lefty, neither of which much describes Richards any more.