Game time: 1:05 pm

Scheduled starters: Bronson Arroyo v. Tim Wakefield

The game will be on ESPN and on gameday audio (Cincinnati feed).




Ft. Myers Weather: 10 am observation at Page Field: wind out of the east at 8 mph, visibility 9 miles, 3,400 scattered, temperature 75F, DP 57F


Forecast: A few scattered clouds and temperatures going to the mid-80's by mid-afternoon. The DP is rising slightly, so it should be a little better for the knuckler today. The winds will be light and out of the east southeast, becoming west southwest by late afternoon.


Anni

That's gonna be fun

Last Florida ST game for the Sox.

Wake gets a fly out, ground out, and pop up in the first. No score with the Sox coming up.

Arroyo got a nice ovation when he came out of the dugout.

1-2-3 for Wake. Full counts on 1st 2 hitters. fly out, ground out, pop out

Crisp CF
Loretta 2B
Nixon DH
Manny LF
Lowell 3B
Youkilis 1B
Pena RF
Bard C
Gonzalez SS (They just moved the lineup, don't remember who was first, Bard or Gonzo)

vs. Arroyo.

Crisp leads off with a single...

Crisp with a great swing on 2 strike pitch, hits it to right center, base hit.

Single...Coco thought about a double. Loretta up.

Loretta was down 0-2, now 2-2, pick off by Arroyo....thrown away! way back to RF! Crisp ot 3rd.

Loretta pops out to 1B.

hows the avg for Coco? its like 500 isnt it?

.468

Arroyo K's Trot on 88 MPH fastball. 2 outs, Crisp still on 3rd.

and Manny on a lowwww pitch.

Wake: 2nd inning

Ground out
HR, Rich Aurila! hanging pitch, to left (wind blowing there)
great play by Youks at 1B!
ground out

1-0 Reds after 1 and a half innings.

Interesting that Tito crafts an almost totally RH lineup to face Bronson.

Lowell hits one up the middle of Arroyo's back (he's fine)... 1B.

Youkilis lines an opposite field single.

1st and 2nd for Arroyo vs. WMP...

Arroyo gets WMP swinging at a breaking ball low and away...

Boston 2nd:

Lowell hits one off Arroyo, infield single.
Youkilis with a great swing, single to right.
Pena vs. Arroyo...nice
K for Pena.

Bard hits into a double play on hsi birthday:|

Get used to this statement minus the birthday part.

I think it's sweet.

anyone know what happend in innings 3-4?

Arroyo has set down 8 in a row. K'd the side in the 4th.

I should hope so, this is his World Series.

I'm going to assume the ESPN guns have been off for some reason the last couple of days.

They had Schill in the high 80's, Foulke in the low 80's and now Paps in the 86-88 range.

They ALL can't be throwing that slow.

EDIT: Papelbon K's one, allows a seeing high single, K's another...

Haha, I missed how Paps got the last out-- I saw him walking off the mound...

Here's to hoping it was another K.

Nice inning for Paplebon. Strikes out the side (incl. ground ball single).

Answers my question...

Arroyo has set down 16 in a row.

Are we trying to make him look this good or something?

EDIT: Lowell draws a walk! Baserunner!

Youk with a chopper than the 3B made a nice play and throw on.

1-0 Reds heading to the top of the 8th...

Him dominating us felt like a mortal lock coming into the game. No surprises there, especially when you stack the lineup against Arroyo with RIGHTIES.

MDC walks two, Hatteberg doubles, then with 2 on, MDC gets two outs (incl. old friend Andy Abad), but then Kearns singles them home before MDC gets out of it. Foulke next?

I'm listening to Reds radio. They call him "Brandon, I mean Bronson, Arroyo"

C'mon Wily Mo

Yeah, much more so than the ACTUAL World Series he pitched in, way back in, uh....2004?

Think he's doing him a solid?

Shake that butt again, girl in the first row with the short-shorts.

Of course, and why shouldn't he? Replace Trot with Ortiz and that's his regular lineup against LEFTIES. Of course, his regular lineup against lefties looks like it would be terrible against any RHP, especially with Bard instead of Tek, but for Bronson it's a gift.

FINAL: Reds 4, SOX 0

WP - Bronson Arroyo

LP - Tim Wakefield


Reds - 4R, 8H, 1E
SOX - 0R, 3H, 0E

[codebox]CINCINNATI (4) AT BOSTON (0)

CINCINNATI AB R H BI BOSTON AB R H BI
R Freel cf 3 0 0 0 C Crisp cf 3 0 1 0
N Hopper cf 2 0 0 0 W Harris cf 0 0 0 0
F Lopez ss 2 1 1 0 M Loretta 2b 3 0 0 0
J Bannon ss 1 0 0 0 E Wilson 2b 1 0 0 0
E Encarnacion 3b 3 0 1 0 T Nixon dh 3 0 0 0
F Menechino 3b 0 1 0 0 A Stern dh 1 0 0 0
S Hatteberg 1b 4 0 2 1 M Ramirez lf 2 0 0 0
G Patchett 2b 0 1 0 0 D Mohr lf 1 0 0 0
R Aurilia 2b 2 1 1 1 M Lowell 3b 2 0 1 0
A Abad 1b 1 0 0 0 K De Renne 2b 0 0 0 0
J Cruz dh 4 0 0 0 K Youkilis 1b 3 0 1 0
A Kearns rf 4 0 2 2 L Sorensen 1b 0 0 0 0
B Buchanan lf 4 0 1 0 W Pena rf 3 0 0 0
D Ross c 4 0 0 0 Y Yema rf 0 0 0 0
J Bard c 3 0 0 0
J Devries c 0 0 0 0
A Gonzalez ss 2 0 0 0
A Cora ss 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 34 4 8 4 TOTALS 28 0 3 0

CINCINNATI 010 000 030 -- 4
BOSTON 000 000 000 -- 0

E--B Arroyo. DP--CINCINNATI 2, BOSTON 1.
LOB--CINCINNATI 7, BOSTON 3. 2B--S Hatteberg.
HR--R Aurilia 1 (2) (off T Wakefield).
IP H R ER BB SO HR
CINCINNATI
B Arroyo (W,2-2) 7 3 0 0 1 9 0
R White 1 0 0 0 0 2 0
M Burns 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
BOSTON
T Wakefield (L,1-2) 4 2 1 1 1 3 1
M Timlin 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
J Tavarez 1 2 0 0 1 0 0
J Papelbon 1 1 0 0 0 3 0
M Delcarmen 1 2 3 3 2 1 0
J Searles 1 0 0 0 0 1 0

SO--CIN: D Ross 2, R Aurilia, J Cruz, S
Hatteberg, R Freel, A Kearns, N Hopper. BOS: T
Nixon 2, M Ramirez 2, W Pena 2, J Bard 2, M
Lowell, D Mohr, A Gonzalez. BB--CIN: F Lopez 2, F
Menechino, R Aurilia. BOS: M Lowell, W Harris.
T--2:33. A--7,756.[/codebox]

That's a wrap on Spring Training. Well done Anni!

Where and whom do the Sox play next? Today was the last FLA game, right? Maybe they start practicing winning now?

We've got two exhibition games at Philadelphia on Saturday and Sunday. Then, Texas on Monday! WOO-HOOOOO!

I'll open threads for the exhibition games in the Spring Training Forum so we can comment on them. I know they're not really ST, but they're not real games, either.

Anni

Thanks, Anni.