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BOSTON -- Drew Pomeranz insists hes ready for whatever the Boston Red Sox ask him to do, but the task at hand is one thats relatively new to the 27-year-old southpaw.The assignment? A shutdown pitcher for a big-market team in a hitter-friendly ballpark.Ive done literally everything there is to do on a baseball field as a pitcher, he said after being traded to Boston from San Diego last Thursday. You could shove me out there in any situation, Ive done it.Hes started games, hes closed them -- and everything in between.One thing Pomeranz hasnt done yet is pitch in a Red Sox uniform, but hell get the chance in Wednesdays series finale against the San Francisco Giants at Fenway Park.Pretty excited to go to Boston, Pomeranz said. Its a great city, great team. Theyve been doing well all year. Theyre right there in the race.They want to win here, and I want to win, too.Pomeranz (8-7, 2.47 ERA) faces a familiar foe in his Red Sox debut, a Giants team hes already faced three times this season and was scheduled to start against last Sunday before the trade.Boston (52-39) earned a 4-0 victory over the league-leading Giants (57-37), which has never won in four tries at Fenway Park since moving to San Francisco in 1958.The Giants suffered a three-game sweep at Fenway in 2007.Pomeranz, a first-time All-Star, is 0-2 with a 2.60 ERA in three starts against San Francisco this season and 1-4 with a 4.54 ERA over nine appearances (seven starts) lifetime.Buster Posey is 6-for-13 (.462) with two homers and three RBI against Pomeranz. The only Giants player who has hit Pomeranz harder is Hunter Pence (4-for-14, four homers, eight RBI).Pence, however, wont be a factor, as he was held out of a rehab game with Triple-A Sacramento on Tuesday for precautionary reasons. Hes been out since June 1 with a right hamstring strain.Second baseman Joe Panik (concussion) rehabbed with Sacramento on Tuesday as he recovers from being hit in the head by a pitch June 18 at Tampa Bay.Pomeranzs debut with the Red Sox is poised to overshadow the return of San Franciscos Matt Cain (1-5, 5.34 ERA), who will be making his first start since returning from the disabled list.Cain hasnt pitched since June 13, when he sustained a right hamstring strain. He was 1-1 with a 9.00 ERA over three minor-league rehab starts, allowing 13 runs and 14 hits in 13 innings.Hes ready to go, Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. Hes got no issues with the hamstring. We just hope hes sharp and gives his team a chance to win.The three-time All-Star has faced Boston once, giving up a run on three hits with three strikeouts over seven innings during the Giants only prior trip to Fenway in June 2007.Hanley Ramirez, who spent three seasons in the National League West with the Los Angeles Dodgers, has hit Cain well, going 13-for-47 with two homers and five RBI.Aaron Hill, a utility infielder the Red Sox also recently acquired, is 9-for-32 (.281) with two triples, a homer and three RBI against Cain.Boston may be without another late-inning reliever, as Koji Uehara departed Tuesdays appearance after throwing just seven pitches in the ninth inning.He was diagnosed with a pectoral strain.The Red Sox are already without Junichi Tazawa (right shoulder impingement), but he threw all of his pitchers in Tuesdays simulated game and is likely to return Friday.Clearance Nike Air Max 97 .C. -- Chris Thorburn thinks one of the reasons the Winnipeg Jets have been successful under new coach Paul Maurice is that theyre playing together as a team. 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Note: The Calgary Flames announced Tuesday that Sean Monahan would not be made available to Canadas World Junior team.WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- ?If No. 15 Purdue continues to shoot 3-pointers with the accuracy it did Saturday against Morehead State, the Boilermakers will have the potential for a special season.Freshman guard Carsen Edwards scored 16 points, and Purdue made 15 of 29 attempts from 3-point range -- 11 in the first half -- on the way to a 90-56 victory.When you look at their big men (Caleb Swanigan and Isaac Haas), you kind of have to start there, but you learn quickly that Purdue is a very balanced team, Morehead State acting head coach Preston Spradlin said. When defending them, you have to pick your poison.The Boilermakers (6-2), coming off a Wednesday loss at No. 14 Louisville in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, used a 15-0 first-half run to stretch a 10-9 lead to 25-9, and Purdue continued to pull away.Dakota Mathias added 14 points, Swanigan and P.J. Thompson had 13 each for Purdue and the 7-foot-2 Haas had 11 points and five rebounds.Miguel Dicent had 11 points for Morehead State (2-5), which played without coach Sean Woods, who has been suspended with pay since Nov. 22, when the university launched an official investigation into Woods treatment of players.Purdue made 11 of 20 from 3-point range during the first half when it built a 47-25 lead. Carsen Edwards, who made his first start in place of slumping Vince Edwards, and Mathias made four 3-pointers each in the first half.There are a lot of people on the team who are able to shoot the ball, Carsen Edwards said. The shots were falling today, and people were hot, so we tried to keep getting the ball to the hot hand and keep making shots.Thompson said that the 6-8 Swanigan, who had nine rebounds, and Haas always will be the focus of the Purdue offense.The bigs are our bread and better, said Thompson, who was 3 of 5 from 3-point range. We definitely want to work inside-out. It looks like the more we get the ball inside, the easier it is for us shooters, because (Swanigan and Haas) get so much attention with double teams. Then, we get wide open 20-footers.Purdue coach Matt Painter was most pleased that the Boilermakers, who had been averaging 15.7 turnovers, were guilty of only nine Saturday, including three during the final 20 minutes.We have been emphasizing turnoverss the whole season, and today really was no different in terms of how other teams have played us defensively, Painter said.dddddddddddd. We also have had people not zone us, and we still have had turnovers. Today was a good sign that we bounced back after a loss on the road (at Louisville) and played well.The Boilermakers played without fifth-year graduate student transfer point guard Spike Albrecht, who suffered a back injury in a Nov. 18 victory against Georgia State and battled through the pain in the Louisville game. Painter said Albrecht is out indefinitely.BIG PICTUREMorehead State: With Woods suspended indefinitely, the Eagles are a distracted basketball team, and it shows as their losing streak reached five on Saturday, including 0-3 for acting coach Spradlin.Purdue: Its a byproduct of opposing defenses centering their attention on Boilermaker big men Swanigan and Haas, but Purdue entered this game leading the Big Ten in 3-point field goal shooting percentage at 41.8 and made 55 percent from beyond the arc during the opening half on Saturday.POLL IMPLICATIONSWhile it did not play well until late in the game Wednesday at No. 14 Louisville, Purdue has a chance to move up in the next AP Top 25 after playing very well in Saturdays 34-point victory. Only 2016 NCAA champion Villanova and 2013 NCAA champ Louisville have beaten the Boilermakers.LINEUP CHANGEWith junior forward Vince Edwards struggling, Painter inserted freshman guard Carsen Edwards -- no relation to Vince -- into Saturdays starting lineup, and the first-year player made 6 of 12 shots, including 4 of 7 from 3-point range.He gave us some additional quickness, Painter said of Carsen Edwards. He can drive and shoot it. Sometimes, you are just searching for things at this time of the season. Vince and Carsen will continue to play a lot.UP NEXTMorehead State: The Eagles do not play until going to Lipscomb on Dec. 10.Purdue: The Boilermakers travel to New York City for a Tuesday night game against Arizona State in the Jimmy V. Classic.---More AP college basketball: www.collegebasketball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25. ' ' '