Game time: 1:05 pm

Schedule Starters: David Pauley v. Gavin Floyd





The game will be on NESN, mlb.tv, WEEI and mlb gameday audio.




Philadelphia weather: 10 am observation at Philadelphia International Airport: wind out of the southwest at 16 mph; visibility 10 miles in light rain; few clouds at 5,000 feet, 6,500 scattered, 13,000 overcast; temperature 65F, DP 53F


Forecast: There's a chance of showers and thundershowers throughout the afternoon, but most of the time it will not be raining. The temperature will get into the low 70's, and the wind will be out of the west at 10-15 mph, with gusts to 25 mph.

A west wind will be across from left to right.



Anni

The game will start at 1:35 while they get the field ready. They had some rain a short time ago, and the field was covered.

GAME IS BLACKED OUT IN CALIFORNIA ON DIRECTV...WHAT GIVES? What channel can DirecTV customers watch it on if 623 is blacked out?

Bob G

Sox starting lineup:

Crisp, cf
Loretta, 2b
Ortiz, dh
Ramirez, lf
Nixon, rf
Varitek, c
Lowell, 3b
Youkilis, 1b
Gonzalez, ss

Pauley, p

There may be some connection between the rain delay and Directv blacking out the game. They haven't blacked out a Sox game since the 1st day of spring training. Hopefully they'll fix the error soon.

Jacoby is in the dugout, hopefully we'll get to see him later on

Should've had Adam Stern in RF today, he would've caught that.

Lowell and Youks go back-to-back

How many times will you get to hear that?

Let's hope at least 3 times

Lowell seems to have gotten his bat speed back and will have some confidence going into the season, which is awesome. And Youkilis, well, how can you not love that guy? Or make a thread that has reached several pages with the creator of said thread the only anti-Youkilis person on the entire board.


And, I don't think Pauley is Major League ready just yet, haha. Poor kid, getting thrown to the wolves; A great hitting team in an uber-small ballpark.

Well, there was a minor heart attack.

Crisp smoked one to first, Howard bobbled it and rather than tossing it to the P covering first, he trucked over there and tripped Covelli up, who then fell and laid face first on the dirt for a few seconds.

He got up smiling and laughing, no big deal. But, man.

Sox lose 9-5.
Directv blacked out the whole game.
Just one more game!

FINAL - PHI 9, SOX 5

WP - Geoff Geary

LP - Keith Foulke


PHI - 9R, 14H, 1E
SOX - 5R, 9H, 1E

That doesnt sound good

He looked off at times, and good at others. Left a changeup too high, missed with a fastball. He looks not quite ready, but not totally awful.

[codebox]BOSTON (5) AT PHILADELPHIA (9)

BOSTON AB R H BI PHILADELPHIA AB R H BI
C Crisp cf 2 0 0 0 J Rollins ss 4 0 1 1
W Pena cf 2 0 0 0 S Fasano c 0 0 0 1
M Loretta 2b 3 0 0 0 D Bell dh 5 3 4 1
A Cora 2b 1 0 0 0 B Abreu rf 3 1 1 0
D Ortiz dh 2 0 0 0 S Victorino rf 0 0 0 0
J Snow dh 2 0 1 0 C Utley 2b 4 2 2 4
M Ramirez lf 2 0 0 0 T Perez 2b 0 0 0 0
W Harris lf 2 1 0 0 P Burrell lf 4 0 1 0
T Nixon rf 3 1 2 2 P Bergeron lf 0 0 0 0
J Varitek c 3 1 1 0 R Howard 1b 4 0 1 1
K Huckaby c 1 0 0 0 C Coste 1b 0 0 0 0
J Bailey 1b 1 0 0 0 A Rowand cf 4 1 1 0
M Lowell 3b 3 1 3 1 J Lieber c 3 1 1 0
E Wilson 3b 1 0 0 0 A Gonzalez ss 1 1 1 0
K Youkilis 1b 2 1 1 2 A Nunez 3b 4 0 1 1
A Gonzalez ss 3 0 1 0
A Machado ss 0 0 0 0
D Mohr ph 1 0 0 0
M Lowell 3b 3 1 3 1
J Ellsbury cf 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 38 6 12 6 TOTALS 36 9 14 9

BOSTON 020 210 000 -- 5
PHILADELPHIA 320 020 11x -- 9

E--K Huckaby, R Howard. DP--BOSTON 1,
PHILADELPHIA 1. LOB--BOSTON 8, PHILADELPHIA 5.
2B--J Varitek, T Nixon, J Snow, A Nunez, M
Lieberthal, D Bell, C Utley. HR--T Nixon 1 (2)
(off G Floyd), M Lowell 1 (1) (off G Floyd), K
Youkilis 1 (4) (off G Floyd), D Bell 1 (1) (off R
Seanez), C Utley 1 (5) (off D Pauley). SB--S
Victorino 1 (3). SF--K Youkilis, S Fasano.
IP H R ER BB SO HR
BOSTON
D Pauley 4 8 5 5 0 4 1
K Foulke (L,0-1) 1 3 2 2 0 2 0
M Timlin 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
R Seanez 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
J Papelbon 1 2 1 1 0 1 0
PHILADELPHIA
G Floyd 4 5 4 4 2 2 3
G Geary (W,2-0) 1 1 1 1 1 1 0
R Cormier 1 2 0 0 1 1 0
R Franklin 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
A Rhodes 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
T Gordon 1 1 0 0 0 1 0

SO--BOS: J Varitek 2, M Ramirez, W Harris, D
Mohr, W Pena. PHI: A Rowand 3, R Howard 2, P
Burrell, B Abreu, C Utley, J Rollins. BB--BOS: A
Cora, D Ortiz, M Ramirez, C Crisp. PHI: B Abreu.
T--2:44. A--24,749.[/codebox]