Memo to the crack Red Sox medical team: make the players get their flu shots! Two key Boston players will miss today's first game in Detroit due to the flu:
Mookie Betts and
Hanley Ramirez. Since Spring Training, a bevy of BoSox have come down with flu symptoms—missing big chunks of time. Here is today Red Sox line-up in
The Motor City:
Brock Holt, DH;
Dustin Pedroia, 2B;
Andrew Benintendi, LF;
Mitch Moreland, 1B;
Chris Young, RF;
Jackie Bradley Jr., CF;
Sandy Leon, C;
Pablo Sandoval, 3B;
Marco Hernandez, SS.
Eduardo Rodriguez will take to the hill for
The Carmine Hose.
