Game time: 1:05 pm

Scheduled starters: Daisuke Matsuzaka v. Hong-Chih Kuo

Hideki Okajima and Manny Delcarmen will also pitch

The game will be on mlb webcast.


Vero Beach Weather:


11 am observation at Vero Beach Municipal Airport: Wind out of the south at 15 mph with gusts to 31 mph, visibility 10 miles, few clouds at 2,400 feet, 3,100 scattered, temperature 80F, DP 64F.


Forecast: Showers and thundershowers are likely during the afternoon associated with a cold front currently in northern Florida, moving southeast. It'll be warm and slightly humid with a gusty wind.

The wind will be blowing out to right.

Gameday:

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/y2006/gd.ht...1&brand=mlb

Sox:

Ellsbury cf,
Youkilis, 3b
Hinske, rf
Pena, lf
Varitek, c
Pedroia, 2b
Bailey, 1b
Cora, ss

Matsuzaka, p


Dodgers:

Furcal, ss
Pierre, cf
Anderson, 2b
Saenz, 1b
Ethier, rf
Martin, c
Young, lf
Martinez, 3b

Kuo, p


three up, three down for the Sox in the first.


Matsuzaka gave up a leadoff ground-rule double, and the Dodgers picked up a run on a bloop single by Anderson.


1-0 Dodgers with one out in the first.


1-0 after 1


3 hits off Matsuzaka

WMP and Tek with back to back homers. Pena's to right and Varitek's to left. 2-1 boston.

Kuo walked Matsuzaka! And everyone in the ballpark knew that Matsuzaka was not going to take the bat off his shoulder!




Three-run HR for Hinske.

And it's pouring in Vero Beach.

I think Kuo must be doing a rain dance.

Rain delay at Vero Beach.

It looks like the Sox may have taken a three-hour bus ride to play less than three inning.

5-1 Sox in the third.

Game has been called

Wow, that was fast! usually we have to wait as much as 3 hours before the umps finally delays ballgame, etc.

For a spring training game? Me thinks not. It's usually closer to three minutes than three hours.

Daisuke Matsuzaka laughed on his way to first base after drawing a walk in the third inning