Game time: 10:05 pm EDT (7:05 pm PDT)

Scheduled starters: Curt Schilling (12-3, 3.50) v. Jason Windsor (0-0, 1.80)


Oakland Weather: 10 am PDT (1 pm EDT) observation at OAK: Wind out of the west at 8 mph, visibility 10 miles, scattered clouds at 25,000 feet, temperature 73F, DP 61F.

Forecast: HOT! Oakland airport broke a record yesterday with a high of 89F, and it was hotter inland, away from the Bay. The west wind is keeping it about 5-10 degrees cooler in the coastal and bay areas than just 10 miles inland.

The high that's controlling weather in the bay area is weakening slightly, and this will allow a seabreeze to begin cooling this afternoon. That's good news and bad news. The ocean is west out there, and homeplate is on the east end of McAfee stadium. So it will be cooler, but the wind will be blowing straight out at 10-20 mph by late afternoon. The seabreeze will weaken when the sun goes down.

NWS has a heat advisory for the bay area through tonight.

There is likely to be patchy fog in the area later tonight.

I hope I can see some of it on MLB.TV when I get home. I am going to see the Rays and Angels tonight.

Hot Weather Mojo.......

OOPS!

I'm glad my wife checked the tickets! We are going to tomorrow's game at 12:15.

The avatar and I will be there tomorrow as well.

Tonight's Haiku:

Dirty their white cleats
Schill goes for Number 13
Moneyball THIS, Beane.

The heat is pretty bad here but 7:05 games in Oakland are not that bad no matter what. Got tickets 6 rows from the field right behind 1st base for tonight's game. My usual cheap bleacher tickets for tomorrow's getaway game...now that will be a scorcher.

[codebox]Boston Oakland
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Pos Player HR RBI AVG. Pos Player HR RBI AVG.
--- ------ -- --- ---- --- ------ -- --- ----
1B Youkilis, Kevin 11 47 .292 C Kendall, Jason 1 23 .272
2B Loretta, Mark 3 39 .306 CF Kotsay, Mark 7 39 .254
DH Ortiz, David 34 95 .283 RF Bradley, Milton 5 17 .282
LF Ramirez, Manny 27 76 .313 DH Thomas, Frank 20 51 .241
RF Nixon, Trot 6 44 .298 1B Swisher, Nick 22 56 .255
C Varitek, Jason 11 47 .243 LF Payton, Jay 5 35 .282
3B Lowell, Mike 13 51 .292 3B Chavez, Eric 15 47 .231
CF Crisp, Coco 4 18 .260 SS Crosby, Bobby 9 37 .231
SS Gonzalez, Alex 8 33 .276 2B Ellis, Mark 5 23 .219
P Schilling, Curt (12-3, 3.50) P Windsor, Jason (0-0, 1.80)[/codebox]

*MOJO* - BOS @ OAK - Cryptozoology Day 1



Jason Windsor is a name reminiscent of majestic flight. Beware the giant thunderbird that is Jason Windsor, swooping down with it's 20 foot wingspan, capable of lifting deer, people, and even light hitting ball clubs up off the ground. The A's will need every bit of it's help when going up against Curt Schilling, and the thunderbird can... wait, what?

I'm being told that there is no proof the thunderbird ever existed.

Hmm... well, good luck then. Because I'll tell you something, I'm 92.3% certain these guys exist:



And they like their birds good and tangible.

Lions, thunderbirds, and bears! Oh, my!

Go Red Sox, and beware of chupacabras.

I wasn't going to stay up, but the game is starting in a few minutes......

Nice start boys

Manny should be standing on 2nd.

I wonder how much that knee is bothering him. Hopefully he just thought Ortiz was not going to third...

Why take home run cuts when you don't have home run power?

Manny being Manny! Orlando Cepeda '73 would have made it to second.

I'm pretty sure he thought it was gone.

Sac fly is better than GIDP

And at least Trot doesn't swing like a girl like Tek right there

I'll definitely take the sac fly, but it looked like he might strike out.

Yes, the sac fly is nice.

But once again Trot was off balance on his swing (and behind the two fastballs earlier in the count). He still looks awful.

Horrible play by Tek. Let's pump fake a guy who isn't even looking towards you.

F*** you, Varitek. Get your head out of your ass.

I know, what a terrible throw, too.

Extra Innings is showing the friggin' Philly game's extra innings...what happenned?

At least that little fiasco only ended up costing Schilling 2 pitches (and a run).

What a drag on the team Varitek has been for most of the year. He made the NY Post's Most Un-Valuable list, and deservedly so.

Here, he cost Schilling a run.

It should be on another channel then, on mine it was switched from game 1 to game 4

Check out the MLB channels without game listings. That is where I found it.

Youkilis threw home instead of getting the 2nd out at first base. Had the runner going back to third by a long way, but Varitek pump-faked and then pulled Lowell off the bag with the throw. Everybody safe.

YOU'RE THE MAN!!!


Just in time to watch Varitek "flail" at a ball somewhere west of St Louis.

Coco (You've-got-to-throw-a-really-bad-pitch-if-you-want-to-walk-me) Crisp.

Catchy.

Phew! Curt got away with two pitches to Crosby.

He sure made Chavez look sick, though!

Manny.

I friggin' love Manny.

edit: I also love whoever hooked Trot up with some HGH.

He's good.

Trot with some power. Fantastic.

That makes up for him not getting to 2nd last time.

TROT!!!!

Power Surge!!

I make a smartass comment and Trot makes me look dumb.

Man! Was that a sight for sore eyes by Nixon.

Time for a power surge from Tek, too!

In other words, a single to RF would be great right now.

Yeah, right.

Once again Tek looked totally overmatched by the fastball.

Good job by the Sox getting into Oakland's bullpen so early.

Freakin' Payton. He is irritating no matter what uniform he is wearing. Good catch though.

Too bad. AGonz hit that one hard.

I HATE Jay Payton

Coming out of shock here. Wow. Nixon hit a HR. First extra base hit of the month (I think) and first homer since early June. Wow.

Good inning by Curt.

Beckett should study the way Schilling disposed of Bradley. Fastballs to set up the offspeed pitch, roller to SS.

Of course, Curt is a master.

Great hit and run call by Tito there. Without it thats a DP

Sox end the Oakland bullpen's scoreless streak.

I don't get Tek sometimes. He'll look completely lost out there, but I wouldn't be surprised to see him crush the ball in his next at bat. Like this weekend against the Mariners.

Another monster AB by Varitek. Honestly, he should be in the 9-hole right now.