Red Sox, Cubs primed for pitchers' duel in opener

Boston's Kutter Crawford (1-0, 0.66 ERA) carries the top qualifying ERA in all of baseball into the weekend-opening start against Chicago rookie left-hander Shota Imanaga (3-0, 0.84). Crawford is coming off his first win and second quality start of the season on Saturday at Pittsburgh, where he worked around seven hits and three walks to allow just one run over six innings. "I take pride in competing and trying to work out of situations like that," Crawford said, reflecting on that outing.