Right-hander Jose Cabrera is scheduled to make his third major league start for the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night in the opener of a three-game series against the Milwaukee Brewers in Phoenix.

Cabrera (0-1, 3.60 ERA) made his second MLB start last Saturday and took the loss after allowing four runs and seven hits in five innings of a 4-2 defeat at the Tampa Bay Rays.

After surrendering a first-inning home run to Junior Caminero, Cabrera blanked the Rays until Jonathan Aranda’s two-out, two-run homer in the fifth.

Arizona manager Torey Lovullo said he was hesitant to let Cabrera face the top of the order for a third time, but he thought Cabrera earned the opportunity.

“Those are little things that we’ve got to figure out,” Lovullo said. “But overall, he attacked the zone against a team that doesn’t strike out a lot. They’re going to put the ball in play, and he was doing a good job.

“He’s been a very pleasant surprise for us. This is a kid that was in Double-A a month ago — or even less — maybe three weeks ago, and now he’s pitching [in] the big leagues in meaningful games. He’s going to continue to get the ball.”

Cabrera, 24, served notice he was ready to face the best hitters when he fired five shutout innings in his major league debut on June 21 in his team’s 4-2 loss against the visiting Minnesota Twins.

“That’s just my mindset — attack, attack, attack,” Cabrera said. “It doesn’t matter what happened, I just want to keep going and do whatever I have to do to keep following the plan I’ve got with my catcher.”

Arizona is coming off a 6-4 loss against the visiting San Francisco Giants on Wednesday night, which prevented the Diamondbacks from starting 9-0 against their National League West rivals this season.

The Brewers, meanwhile, were foiled in their bid for a four-game home sweep of the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday afternoon before they left for an 11-game road trip. Milwaukee fell 7-2 to Cincinnati in the series finale.

The Brewers on Friday will start left-hander Kyle Harrison (8-1, 2.57 ERA), who has won seven straight decisions but has gone without a decision in his past two outings.

Harrison most recently allowed two runs and three hits in five innings of his team’s 8-2 loss to the Chicago Cubs on Saturday.

Harrison retired the first 10 batters before Matt Shaw singled with one out in the fourth inning. Harrison said he wanted to come out for the sixth with the score 2-2 but was removed after 92 pitches.

“I was upset I couldn’t really go out for the sixth,” Harrison said. “(The Cubs) grinded some tough at-bats, and I was executing some pitches and they were fouling it off.”

After the bullpen gates opened, Chicago got to the Milwaukee relievers for six runs.

“I know it’s cliche to say, but you ‘flush it,'” Harrison said. “At the end of the day, those guys are great down there, and we’re just going to keep pumping them up with confidence.”

Harrison has faced Arizona four times in his career, including three starts, and is 0-2 with an 8.56 ERA. He last went against the Diamondbacks when he threw an inning of shutout relief against them last season as a member of the Giants.

–Field Level Media

Following a 5-2 homestand highlighted by a four-game series sweep of the rival New York Yankees, the Boston Red Sox will begin a nine-game road trip on Friday night against the Los Angeles Angels in Anaheim, Calif.

The trek will take the Red Sox to the All-Star break.

Boston rookie Jake Bennett (2-3, 3.27 ERA) will make his seventh major league start in the series opener and will oppose fellow left-hander Reid Detmers (3-5, 3.88).

Bennett has allowed just one earned run and seven hits over 12 1/3 innings in his last two starts while striking out 12. He comes in off a 4-1 victory over the Yankees on Saturday, when he held New York hitless until Max Schuemann drilled a 412-foot homer to center with two outs in the fifth. Bennett allowed three hits over 6 1/3 innings, with two walks and three strikeouts.

“He was awesome,” Boston interim manager Chad Tracy said. “He was really good. Did it with a lot of balls in play and only a few strikeouts. A lot of weak contact, ball in play, used his defense.”

Bennett has yet to face the Angels in his young career.

Detmers, who is 3-1 with a 1.72 ERA in nine career appearances (five starts) against the Red Sox, will start Friday for Los Angeles, which will try to bounce back from a three-game sweep by the Mariners in Seattle.

Detmers comes in off an impressive June that saw him go 1-0 with a 2.27 ERA in five starts. He allowed just 17 hits in 31 2/3 innings and struck out 30.

Boston had a season-high five-game winning streak snapped with an 8-1 loss Tuesday to Washington and then fell 10-2 to the Nationals on Wednesday.

“Call it a really good homestand (that) that could have been a great homestand,” Tracy said.

The Red Sox, last in the American League East, will begin the trip — which also includes three-game stops in Chicago against the White Sox and New York against the Mets — 6 1/2 games out of the final wild-card spot in the American League.

“We’re in a much better position than we were (before the 5-2 homestand),” Tracy said. “We got a day off (Thursday). We haven’t had one in a while. Rest, recover, and then try and go have three really good series on the road, see if you can win a few series, and put yourself in a better position leading into the break. That’s the mindset.”

The Red Sox will have to do a large chunk of games without first baseman Willson Contreras, who found out Thursday that he received a seven-game suspension and an undisclosed fine for his part in benches-clearing brawl with the Nationals on Tuesday. Outfielder Nate Eaton received a three-game ban.

Contreras has played 82 of his 83 games this season at first base and leads Boston in almost every offensive category, including home runs (18) and RBIs (53). He is expected to appeal the suspension, which likely would not be heard until Monday after the holiday weekend. He is eligible to play until the appeal decision has been made.

The Angels, last in the AL West, flew home Thursday night following a 1-0 loss to the Mariners. Seattle’s Bryce Miller carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning before Nolan Schanuel blooped a single among three defenders in shallow right.

Walbert Urena also had a no-hitter through five innings for Los Angeles before giving up a leadoff double into the gap in right-center to J.P. Crawford, who later scored on a bases-loaded walk to Cal Raleigh.

This will be the final home series for the Angels before the All-Star break. They have won four straight home series.

“We’ve got to keep playing,” catcher Logan O’Hoppe told The Orange County Register. “We’ve got three months left to this. It’s a good vibe in here. We enjoy playing with each other and coming to the field every day. We’ve just go to keep playing.”

–Field Level Media

When the Toronto Blue Jays play in Seattle, it almost feels like a neutral field.

Thousands of western Canadians generally flock to T-Mobile Park to see their country’s lone major league team.

While economic and political factors might stop some Canadians this year, a robust following for the Blue Jays still is expected when the team opens a three-game series against the Mariners on Friday night.

It also happens to be a rematch of last year’s American League Championship Series, which the Blue Jays won in seven games.

“I think it will be good for us,” Toronto manager John Schneider said. “It brings you back to that heightened sense of awareness and competitiveness. It brings you back to a really, really emotional time last year. I think it will be good to be back there. They’re a damn good team. We like playing there, and we enjoy the atmosphere there. I think it will be good for the guys, honestly.”

The underperforming Blue Jays, who had a day off Thursday, lost six games in a row before taking two of three from the visiting New York Mets this week. Sean Keys and Myles Straw each hit a three-run homer in Wednesday’s 9-3 Toronto victory.

It was the first career home run for Keys, who was playing in just his third MLB game.

“That was unbelievable,” he said. “Vlad (Guerrero Jr.) brought up the (home-run) jacket. I was seeing it before the game, but I didn’t know if it would be a reality to be able to wear that. … It was awesome to be able to celebrate with them.”

Despite their 41-46 record, the Blue Jays are only 3 1/2 games behind Seattle (45-43) in the race for the AL’s third and final wild-card berth.

The Mariners are coming off a three-game sweep of the visiting Los Angeles Angels. Seattle won 1-0 Thursday as Bryce Miller took a no-hitter into the seventh inning and batterymate Cal Raleigh brought home the game’s lone run on a bases-loaded walk in the sixth.

The Mariners snapped a franchise-record-tying streak of 13 games with three runs or less last weekend against Cleveland before managing just two hits Thursday.

“To say runs were a premium (Thursday) would be an understatement,” Seattle manager Dan Wilson said.

The Mariners, who have dealt with health concerns for much of the season, saw outfielders Julio Rodriguez and Victor Robles leave Thursday’s game due to injuries.

Rodriguez was hit in the back of the helmet by an errant throw from Angels first baseman Nolan Schanuel while running the bases in the first inning, and Robles, who replaced Rodriguez, was hit by a pitch in the right wrist/forearm area in the third.

Wilson said Rodriguez was in the concussion protocol and that Robles’ X-rays came back negative, though both players were to be re-evaluated Friday.

The series opener between the 1977 expansion brethren is set to feature a pair of right-handers in the Blue Jays’ Dylan Cease (4-4, 3.02 ERA) and the Mariners’ Luis Castillo (3-6, 4.93).

Cease took a 7-4 loss Saturday against visiting Texas, giving up four runs over 4 2/3 innings. He allowed just four hits but walked five in addition to his 10 strikeouts. Cease is 0-0 with a 4.82 ERA in two career starts against Seattle.

Castillo is coming off a 3-1 victory last Friday in Cleveland. He allowed one run on four hits in six innings, with one walk and four strikeouts. Castillo is 2-3 with a 4.68 ERA in six previous starts against Toronto.

–Field Level Media