BOSTON – Red Sox manager Terry Francona threw a curveball into his playoff pitching rotation, announcing yesterday that Josh Beckett and Curt Schilling will start Game 1 and Game 2, respectively, of the American League Championship Series at Fenway Park.Daisuke Matsuzaka will start Game 3 at Jacobs Field in Cleveland.”I don’t know if it’s that simple,” Francona said of switching Schilling and Matsuzaka. “I think we tried to accomplish some things with Schill by giving him rest, which I think really helped.”That was probably the biggest thing,” Francona said. Now, going on an extra day, Daisuke’s days are going to be a little bit mixed up anyway, so it’s almost like skipping a turn. It will give him some time whether it’s against hitters or side sessions. We just feel like this is our best way to go forward.”Francona also said knuckleballer Tim Wakefield, left off the playoff roster for the first round with soreness in his back and right shoulder, remains a possibility to be added to the ALCS roster, with a Game 4 start possible. If Wakefield is unable to pitch in that game, Beckett likely would come back to pitch Game 4, and then Game 7.”The only way that would happen, at least looking at it quickly, is if Wake isn’t OK,” Francona said.”We’ve talked to Wake (yesterday) already. We want Wake to pitch Game 4.”We don’t need to go into Game 4 of a playoff game ex perimenting,” Francona said. “Regardless of who it is, or our thoughts or respect, that’s a difficult situation.”We need him to be OK and he understands that,” Francona said. “If he weren’t OK, we could possibly move Beckett up and throw short, realizing that he would come back the next time on regular (res t).”There area also some ramifications that if you do that, everybody else is on their normal day, which is OK, but we’d prefer to give them an extra day. So, the best thing I think that could happen is Wake goes out, feels good, and throws the ball real well,” Francona said.Cleveland is expected to send C.C. Sabathia, Fausto Carmona, and Jake Westbrook to the mound for the first three games of the championship series.”Their top two are top five in the league,” Francona said. “You start reeling off the best pitchers in the league and their top two are going to be in every one of those conversations. That’s certainly something to think about.”(In the lineup) they’ve got speed. They can hit the ball out of the park. They obviously feel good about how they’re playing the game. Their bullpen, (Rafael) Betancourt and (Rafael) Perez are probably throwing as good as any two guys in the league right now.”There’s a reason they’re here. They won 96 games and they’re playing us.”So, that’s probably the way it should be. If you can pick apart a team at this time of year, then something went wrong.”Francona said the Sox likely will have 11 pitches on the roster for the longer ALCS, meaning one of the two back-up catchers, Doug Mirabelli or Kevin Cash, could be dropped.Official ALCS rosters will be announced Thursday.uFrancona said he sent a text message to Cleveland general manager Mark Shapiro as soon as the Indians defeated the Yankees Monday night, wrapping up their four-game ALDS win.”I texted Mark right away when they won,” said Francona, who spent a year with the Indians as a player in 1988 and another year as a special assistant in 2000.”I think I had a text back about five minutes later. I was really happy for them,” he said. “Believe me when I say this: I don’t want them to beat us. I think that’s stating the obvious, but there area some people over there that I’m really close to. I think this series is going to be special for guys like (pitching coach) John Farrell, too. There are some players over there that he had a direct impact on their future. Not only that, but with Mark and (assistant GM) Chris (Antonetti) and those guys in the front office. There’s nothing wrong with going up against people that you really have a lot of respect for. Sometimes, it makes you want to