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A look at whats happening all around the majors Sunday:---HISTORY AT FENWAY?Right-hander Rick Porcello looks to become the first Red Sox pitcher in 70 years to open a season 12-0 at Fenway Park in a series finale against Arizona. Porcello (15-3, 3.40 ERA) is 11-0 in his 12 home starts. Righty Dave Boo Ferriss is the last Boston hurler to win his first 12 decisions in Fenway, finishing 13-0 at home when he went 25-6 overall with three saves in 1946. Right-hander Zack Greinke (11-3, 3.67) goes for the Diamondbacks. Hes 8-0 with a 2.47 ERA in his last 10 starts.HELLO OLD FRIENDCubs right-hander John Lackey (9-7, 3.56) makes his fourth start against the Cardinals in a primetime game at Wrigley Field. Lackey, who pitched for St. Louis the previous two seasons, is 1-1 with a 2.70 ERA against his former team this year, although the Cards are 2-1 in those games. Righty Mike Leake (8-9, 4.79) signed an $80 million, five-year deal with St. Louis shortly after Lackey left in free agency. He has a 9.00 ERA in his past four starts.SKIPPING JOSEThe Marlins will skip ace Jose Fernandezs scheduled turn to keep him on pace for his 180-inning limit this season. Instead, righty Tom Koehler will start against White Sox left-hander Chris Sale (14-5, 3.16). In his past four starts, Koehler is 3-0 with an ERA of 0.67, and Miami manager Don Mattingly called him our best pitcher since the All-Star break. Sale is 0-3 in his past five games and hasnt won since his suspension for cutting up the teams throwback jerseys on July 23.SIXTH CHANCE AT 10Tigers right-hander Michael Fulmer (9-3, 2.43), the AL rookie leader in wins, tries again for his 10th victory. The series finale at Texas will be Fulmers sixth start since his ninth win July 6 at Cleveland. Fulmer gave up only two runs over seven innings in a loss Monday at Seattle after no-decisions in his previous four games -- all Detroit victories. 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Olli Jokinen, Mark Scheifele, and Bryan Little each had a goal and an assist as Winnipeg won 5-2, handing Calgary its record-setting seventh consecutive loss on home ice.Sydney FC coach Graham Arnold has declined to confirm marquees Bobo and Filip Holosko will play FFA Cup final conquerors Melbourne City, instead appearing to issue the pair a challenge to lift their game.Both were conspicuous absentees from the Sky Blues starting line-up that beat Newcastle 2-0 in their A-League clash on Sunday, with Bobo introduced off the bench for 20 minutes and Holosko not in the match-day squad at all.The Slovak winger and Brazilian striker have recently struggled to emulate their scintillating early-season form.They were mostly ineffective in Wednesdays FFA Cup final loss to City and the A-League draw against Adelaide the previous weekend.Arnold said Holosko had been suffering knee tightness in recent weeks and saw the Jets match as an opportune time to freshen him up.Yet the coach stopped short of saying he and Bobo would take part in the one-versus-two clash at ANZ Stadium on Friday night.Ill decide that on Thursday, Arnold said.What I want is performance, and for me the scales of whether you play or not is (based) on performance.Whoever performs and plays well, plays.Weve got plenty good players - Brosque played at No.9 (against NNewcastle), (David) Carney can play left or right, (Milos) Ninkovic can play anywhere in the front line nearly, and now Bernie (Ibini).ddddddddddddo Filip and Bobo are just like normal players - perform and they play.Arnold made a season-high four changes to his starting XI, starting Carney and youngster George Blackwood up front alongside skipper Alex Brosque, and replacing Brandon ONeill and Matt Jurman with Milos Dimitrijevic and Seb Ryall.Superb second-half goals from star Serbian Milos Ninkovic and returning winger Bernie Ibini made up for a tedious first half and ensured unbeaten Sydney are six points clear at the top of the table one-third of the way through their campaign.Yet the squad still lacked the cutting edge in front of goal thats been missing since round six, an ingredient they will sorely need against a stacked City attack that got the better of them at AAMI Park.The most important thing for me is to recover and get the boys fresh again, Arnold said.Theyve had three games in a week including two lots of travel. 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