Red Sox-Indians ALDS Pitching Matchups: Clay Buchholz To Start Game 3

Share this: Clay Buchholz finished his up-and-down 2016 season on a high note, and he’ll get the chance to continue that success into the postseason. Buchholz has been named the Boston Red Sox’s Game 3 starter in their American League Division Series matchup against the Cleveland Indians, per ESPN’s Scott Lauber. That contest will be played at Fenway Park on Sunday, as the Indians will host Games 1 and 2. Buchholz hit some rough patches this season that included several trips to the bullpen. But he earned a spot in the rotation in September and delivered down the stretch, allowing two runs or fewer in four of his last five starts. The veteran right-hander getting Game 3 means left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez, the third man in Boston’s rotation