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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. Timberwolves Jerseys China . 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STORRS, Conn. -- UConn coach Kevin Ollie is hoping his young Huskies can gel early and peak late.The defending American Athletic Conference tournament champions have added a highly touted recruiting class of five freshmen and VCU transfer Terry Larrier to a solid core returning from last years 25-11 squad.But the Huskies roster includes just three players -- seniors Rodney Purvis, Kentan Facey and Amida Brimah -- who have played more than one season for Ollie.The fifth-year head coach said that means his biggest challenge is getting everyone to mesh before a tough non-conference schedule in November and December.I dont want to throw away games early in the season, like we did last year, Ollie said.About 60 percent of the Huskies scoring from 2015-16 is gone with the departure of seven players, including Daniel Hamilton for the NBA draft and Sterling Gibbs and Shonn Miller, the former graduate transfers who used up their eligibility.This years backcourt is expected to pick up much of that scoring slack. The preseason conference freshman of the year, Alterique Gilbert, joins Jalen Adams, who received the same honor last year, and Purvis.Purvis, who averaged just under 13 points a game last season, said he believes there will be many times when all three guards will be on the court at once.We dont have positions, Purvis said. Once we get in the flow of the game and coach gets to throwing different lineups out there, your position dont really matter.The Huskies could also go big, with the 6-foot-8 Larrier at small forward, joining 6-10 Facey or 6-11 sophomore Steven Enoch and the 7-foot shot blocker Brimah down low.Freshmen Christian Vital, Vance Jackson, Mamadou Diarra and Juwan Durham are also expected to compete for playing time.Here are some other things to watch for as the Huskies defend their conference championship:OUT OF CONFERENCE TESTSThe early season includes a trip to the Maui Invitational, with first--round opponent Oklahoma State and North Carolina on the Huskies side of the bracket.dddddddddddd. Oregon, Tennessee, Georgetown and Wisconsin are on the other side. UConn also faces out-of-conference games with Syracuse, Ohio State and Auburn in November and December before visiting the Hoyas in January.GROWING RIVALRY:The Huskies have been picked by the leagues coaches to finish second behind Cincinnati. UConn beat the Bearcats in the conference tournament last season with the help of Adams, who sent the game into a fourth overtime with a 3-pointer from well beyond half court at the buzzer . The rivals wont play until Feb. 4 in Ohio and close the season against each other on March 5 at Gampel Pavilion.NUMBER CHANGE:Rodney Purvis has changed his number from 44 to 15 following the death of a close friend. Tryek Coger, who lived for a time with the Purvis family in North Carolina, was planning to wear the number 15 this season for Oklahoma State. The guard died after a July workout of an undiagnosed heart condition. The two were to meet on the court in November at the Maui Invitational.ARMENIAN STAR?Enoch spent part of the summer playing for the Armenian national team. The Norwalk native has no Armenian ancestry, and had never been overseas before this summer. He received dual citizenship in order to play at the FIBA Under-20 Division B European Championships, were he averaged 17.2 points and 15.3 rebounds in six games.BRIMAHS BACKBrimah, UConns center, played just 25 games last season because of injuries. But he still managed to black 67 shots, giving him 280 for his career. That is third in program history behind Emeka Okafors 441 and Hasheem Thabeets 417. Brimah also shot 66 percent from the floor last season, in large part because of his ability to catch and dunk lob passes. ' ' '