Game time: 4:05 pm EDT (1:05 pm PDT)


Scheduled Starters: Kason Gabbard (no record) v. Felix Hernandez (8-8, 4.89)


The game will be on FOX.

Seattle Weather: 11 am EDT (8 am PDT) observation at SEA: Wind out of the north at 6 mph, visibility 10 miles, few clouds at 13,000 feet, broken clouds at 16,000 feet, overcast layer at 25,000 feet, temperature 69F, DP 59F.


Forecast: The NWS heat advisory continues for the Seattle area, and it's going to be in the low to mid-90s by game time. If the overcast layer doesn't break up, temperatures will be a little cooler than forecast, but the humidity will increase. There's a chance of light rain through late afternoon, but they do have a roof! The wind will be out of the north at around 10 mph, which is blowing in from left.


Roof forecast: Maybe?

Anni

Been waiting all morning to do this...



Hopefully the kid has a good outing, I've got another one lined up. Go Sox!

[codebox]Boston Seattle
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Pos Player HR RBI AVG. Pos Player HR RBI AVG.
--- ------ -- --- ---- --- ------ -- --- ----
CF Crisp, Coco 4 17 .259 RF Suzuki, Ichiro 6 33 .345
2B Cora, Alex 0 11 .315 2B Bloomquist, Willie 0 8 .244
1B Ortiz, David 33 91 .277 3B Beltre, Adrian 7 39 .259
DH Ramirez, Manny 26 71 .312 1B Sexson, Richie 19 65 .226
RF Nixon, Trot 6 44 .300 DH Perez, Eduardo 8 22 .294
3B Lowell, Mike 12 50 .297 LF Everett, Carl 11 32 .225
LF Pena, Wily Mo 4 20 .330 C Johjima, Kenji 10 42 .286
C Mirabelli, Doug 3 14 .200 SS Betancourt, Yuniesk 5 33 .302
SS Gonzalez, Alex 7 32 .283 CF Jones, Adam 0 1 .150
P Gabbard, Kason (0-0, 0.00) P Hernandez, Felix (8-8, 4.89)[/codebox]

I'm tickled that Tito is starting to rest Youkilis, Loretta, Lowell, et al. It's a long season, and keeping these guys fresh (and the bench involved) is as important as "lineup stability".

So, has the game started yet? Sportsline says it's a 4:05 start but there's no game content yet. Maybe since it's a Fox game (which prevents me from watching it here in Philly) it's starting a bit late?

...Never mind...it's working now.

Well, let's see what this kid (Gabbo) has got.

Got the ground ball working, looks like. Is he lefty or the other?

Good start for KG, pitching out of trouble in his first big league inning.

Felix has got his *ss wacked this year quite a few times. Let's go.

Ugh, I forgot that this game is subject to the Fox blackout rules.

Does this mean that MFY fans in CT can't watch their game on YES, since FOX is (hopefully) showing the Sox? I would love to watch baseball on Saturdays, but I refuse to watch the Game of the Week, unless the Sox are on.

Nice job, Lowell!

EDIT - yet I can watch the Fox broadcast of the Cubs/Nats game on mlb.tv. Go figure...

*MOJO* - BOS @ SEA - Revolutionaries Day 6



"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. "

Not all addition swill work out for the best. Will Kason Gabbard's Red Sox (and MLB) debut be more Jon Lester, or more Jason Johnson. Will he surprise like David Pauley, or will he never manage to catch on like Abe Alvarez. It's up to Gabbard himself to make that distinction, and today is his chance to do it. Regardless of outcome, just give it your all. After all, it was Jefferson who said:

"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. "

He may as well have been talking about WEEI and some of the less savory columnists in the Herald and Globe.

Proxy 217.218.114.121 port 80 on MLB.TV for any who need it. It takes awhile to load though.

Waiting for that second half slowdown by Lowell...NOT.

Where was that 2-0 pitch?

So many baserunners on so many cheap hits.

And I still hate Carl Everett.

Coming into the game Lowell was at .604 OPS post all star break. Obviously a small sample size but so is 1 HR. No one said he wouldn't hit another HR in the 2nd half.

Youkilis was near dead for a couple weeks but he appears to have awakened. Lowell in a pennant race may not fade hitting-wise.

I hate Ichiro right now.

This was the best guy the Sox could pull up? What the hell happened to Pauley?

Pauley is busy getting lit up in AAA.

we're behind, but then again, Gabbard only has to keep us in the game. So far we're in the game and he got out of a pair of not-so-nice situations.

Now offense please.

Really? What's his ERA in AAA?

And did Lenny DiNardo die? I haven't heard or seen anything about him in a long while.

6.18.

6.18 ERA
1.75 WHIP


In 7 games.

EDIT: MDK beat me to it, so I'll add this:

16 BB
18K
6HR
.311 BAA (quick & dirty...might be wrong)

Dinardo has been hurt. Apparently something in his neck is causing his hand to tingle.

Stupid MLB.TV. I get the proxy working then the feed dies. I'm sick of this. Gameday it is.

Is the Sox game going to be on Fox when the Mets/Astros game is over?

Doubtful. You usually only get one Fox game and if you're seeing the Mets, you won't see the Sox.

Oh shut up FOX.

Anyway, I can't quote for some reason but thanks, I didn't realize how bad Pauley was sucking.

How much longer is DiNardo going to be out for? Was that the claim as to why he was getting lit up every time he took the mound?

What I don't get is why is it ok for a football player to show-boat when they make a tackle or dance when they get a touch-down but a baseball player has to act "professional" when they hit a home run?

Nixon hasn't had an extra base hit since the 27th of June! He's hitting .182 on the month coming into this game.

This is painful...

But we tied it!

When was Trot's last HR?




June 27th was his last extra basehit? That is flat out pathetic


DP, NICe

2003?

Couple of years ago?

Nice inning

A much better inning.

June 9th, against Texas...

Wow.

Anyone got some extra HGH?

Problem is Manny didn't hit a home run today. I remember laughing at him when he did that with Cleveland (watch a ball hit the fence, settle for a single). Now it pisses me off.

Wow...

He is a number two hitter now

Without speed.

Atleast he will slide

Yeah, I agree that pisses me off too when he tries to show boat and only gets a single but what's the problem when he does in fact smack a home run? Pitchers get to strut around pumping their fist screaming but a hitter has to be professional about driving in runs or smacking home runs?

4 IP, 2 ER, 62 pitches.
Same line for both pitchers so far... Gabbard allowed 2 more hits and struck 3 less hitters out. But he didn't allow a HR, and is 7-4 GB-FB. A couple of DP's too... I think he's been doing well!

2-2 at the Rogers Centre

Edit to change Center to Centre

That's quite the Murderer's Row out there 8 through 2.

Mirabelli - Gonzalez - Crisp - Cora

Egads.

Trot has had a good spell last month overall, with a few doubles, but otherwise he's been just like Loretta, with a higher walk rate of course, but mostly a .300 singles hitter. No slugging whatsoever.

They're showing a soap box derby on ESPN right now. Did I miss the World Series of Darts?

Bring on the WMP era!

Ted Lilly's pitching well against the Yankees, or they're in a team slump, or both. I like the middle one best.

Edit, the two games are eerily similar in runs, hits and errors. Catalanotto makes them different by a hit. OK big Vernon.

Yay, K!

I was excited for a minute thinking that the US Army anthem talks about "kasons" and that Gabbard could have his own theme song, but then I realized it was spelled "caissons" and that such a theme song usage would probably offend somebody. But I still think it's cool.

As the Kasons go rolling along!