Game time: 7:05 pm PDT, 10:05 pm EDT

Scheduled starters: David Wells (2-3, 5.40) v. Gil Meche (9-8, 4.66)


Seattle Weather: 1 pm PDT (4pm EDT) observation at SEA: Wind out of the west northwest at 8 mph, visbility 10 miles, scattered clouds at 25,000 feet, temperature 78F, DP 53F


Forecast: A nice night for baseball with the roof open. The wind will be of of the northwest to north at less than 12 mph. That's blowing across from left to right/in from left.

Angels hammering Cory Lidle like he should be, not like he's Roger Clemens or something as he appeared to be vs. Red Sox last Monday. on this season (although we'll hang on until elimination).

Wait.

I thought Corey Lidle WAS Roger Clemens?

I mean, 'round here, it sounded like Theo let Sandy Koufax slip through his fingers when Lidle went to the Yankees...

I've heard that Manny will be back in the lineup tonight as our starting left fielder, I really wonder if it would be worth having him DH instead and allow Ortiz to play first

60% QS% thus far in a yankee uniform. That is all you can ask for from a #5.

80% legs, 20% everything else Vlad Guerrero admires a ball he hits to right center, a 'la Manny, then turns on the jets ( ) to leg out a triple. They teach these guys on the island to watch the ball, watch the ball, watch the ball, whether it's coming in or going out?

Damon makes it 9 - 7 Angels with a 2 run HR off Shields, and for those that always say his power numbers this year are because of Yankee Stadium, 10 of his 22 HRs are on the road.



Not to worry, KRod Ks ARod, hitting in the two hole, to end the 8th. Beautiful curve, as good as Marilyn's. Well.....

Maybe Damon has been digging in his good buddy's medicine cabinet.

Note on CBS Sportsline GameCentr: Jason Giambi of the Yankees left the game in the top of the 7th inning due to an injured wrist. I wouldn't wish any ill even on the beady-eyed Giambi, but it'd be "too bad" if he experienced a Cliff Floyd injury (circa 1995). Really, it would be too bad, in a humanitarian way because THAT was an awful injury. But in a baseball anti-Yankee way?

And ARod has been abysmal offensively in this game, even though Torre moved him back up to the #2 spot. Didn't help. Some Yankee fans have been saying that he's been sick with the flu since Detroit...but I think he picked up something in Central Park....

He even was seen using one of Robinson Canoe's bats today - the guy is trying everything. I have a feeling that once (or if) he leaves the Yankees, he will get back on track

[codebox]Boston Seattle
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Pos Player HR RBI AVG. Pos Player HR RBI AVG.
--- ------ -- --- ---- --- ------ -- --- ----
CF Crisp, Coco 6 27 .266 CF Suzuki, Ichiro 6 37 .320
2B Loretta, Mark 4 50 .307 2B Lopez, Jose 9 66 .280
DH Ortiz, David 46 120 .287 3B Beltre, Adrian 15 59 .266
LF Ramirez, Manny 34 100 .328 LF Ibanez, Raul 24 97 .277
3B Lowell, Mike 14 60 .285 1B Sexson, Richie 27 87 .233
1B Hinske, Eric 0 0 .260 DH Perez, Eduardo 9 28 .268
C Lopez, Javy 8 35 .262 C Johjima, Kenji 13 56 .294
SS Cora, Alex 0 14 .278 SS Betancourt, Yuniesk 6 40 .297
RF Kapler, Gabe 2 8 .219 RF Bohn, T.J. 0 0 .000
P Wells, David (2-3, 5.40) P Meche, Gil (9-8, 4.66) [/codebox]

Anyone know why Kapler is starting in right instead of Wily Mo?

I'm sure glad to see Manny back.

WMP has a sore left wrist. I just put a note about it in the Wily Mo thread.

Good to see Manny back in the lineup.

4 1/2 out after tonight, baby.

Lets win this one!! MFY is going thru small slump as of lately, it looks like they are running out of gas once they ripped all apart, so lets take advantage!!
I would like to see Wells to go 7 IP 5H 2R 1BB 5K and krapler being able to hit 2 for 4! someone else needs to do SOMETHING about it! IMO, we would have been out of race months ago if it wasn't Ortiz!! SO LETS GO!

Well, the lineup is not the best, but at least is better than the one of last night.

Altough Lowell shouldn't be in the 5th spot....

I thought Youk would be back tonight. Maybe he's available to pinchhit.

I'm curious about his status too, if Manny decides his knee is causing him too much pain, who do we have left to play in the outfield? Hinske and Kapler are already in the lineup and Pena is having wrist difficulties - so who can we turn to if not for Youk? Has Pedroia ever played in the outfield?

No, but you could put Dustin at 2nd, move Loretta to first, and put Hinske into the outfield.

I suggest that everyone here turn to ESPN and watch the LLWS international game. It's in the bottom of the 6th (a 6 inning game), Mexico is down 3 with the bases loaded and none out.

Is there any place on the web to listen to Sox games for free?

Is anybody else as tired of the Javy Lopez era as I am? Everytime I see his name in the lineup, I sigh heavily and wait for the nausea to roll through.

On the bright side, I very much enjoyed the Fox broadcast this afternoon. Now lets make it all worth it with an entry in the W column tonight.

I'm up for back-to-back jacks from the most fearsome 3-4 hitting duo in MLB. And I'd like those delivered with a side order of ferocity please! Thanks.

The MIN/CWS game has drama of its own, bases loaded, 1 out and the White Sox are down by 2 runs

Nice start by Boomer, who apparently is the oldest pitcher ever to start for the Sox. Now offense?

a 9 pitch first for Wells, if we blow another excellent performance from Wells I really think he is going to seriously go off

manny OBP is off the wall

Meche is mowing us down

. . . until Mike Lowell stepped to the plate

5 K's in 2 IP?

Oh come on, please...

and he hasn't even thrown that many pitches


lol @ jerry

wells is looking sharp

Get a whole of yourselves Don and Jerry. LOL

Wells looks good. Don and Remy sound good.

Now if only our offense could start looking good, Meche has been getting hard in his recent starts, but its no small wonder that we are getting owned by him

COCO

And Coco comes through with a great HR...

but why would Meche throw an inside fastball to him, after making him look bad with the breaking ball and the changeup?

Well done to Crisp anyway, Boomer needed that.

"Bottom of the order. Show him that fastball. No respect".

Good strategy



Sorry. I'm still peeved about Hendu's comments about playing in Boston yesterday although I agreed with a lot of the content.

And if Boomer is back next year he'll pass the Eck for the oldest Sox pitcher, starter or otherwise. Eck made his last appearance in 1998 just a week shy of his 44th birthday.

Wells really has it today. Too bad for Hinske's error... but he's really breezing through their order, although he had to work a little in this last inning.

Not free, but MLB.com's Gameday Audio is probably like $9.99 for every game over the rest of the season.

And no lag, unlike my waste of MLB.tv

I know this is late -but nice HR Coco!!! (Since I've been tearing him apart every time he gets out, I've felt it is the right thing to give credit where it is due).

wow, Hinske has really looked bad since joining the Sox (apart from day 1).

On the other hand, Lowell seems to have broken out of his post-ASG slump finally...

Wow Kapler misplayed that. Again.

Uhg!

so great to know that Kapler can turn a single into a double. Too bad he does it for other teams... and obviously we IMMEDIATELY pay for it. Ah, it sucks...

I think I will now use this as my sig line:

"I don't understand what Coco Crisp is doing in center field" - Jerry Remy 8/26/06

Neither do I, Jerry, neither do I.

he really said that?

What was he talking about? His arm? The way he breaks?

I'm watching the M's broadcast on MLB tv unfortunately...

and wow, Crisp can't even hold a guy tagging at FIRST!

LOL! He actually tagged and made it to second. That's how DEAD Coco's arm is.




He used those EXACT words. He was talking about Crisp's throw into the cutoff man but I'll take it as a universal comment.

Hendu just pronounced "Youkilis" like George Bush would pronounce "nucleus."

Like "Youk-u-lis"?

The M's broadcasters are speculating he might be injured, because in addition to his weakness, he's also using a strange way to throw the ball, using only his wrist and not his full arm.

If that were true, I guess they could score from second on a sac fly...

But his arm sucks, injury or no injury.

Javy Lopez needs to get in touch with some of his old friends from Baltimore

Kapler with the base hit

color me shocked

Ok, I've never noticed this before but Coco has a really bizzare way of settling his head on his shoulder before every pitch. Is there some benefit to doing that?

BTW, I can't believe he's all the way up to a 3-1 count.