Game time: 7:05 pm

Scheduled starters: Roy Halladay (10-3, 4.46) v. Tim Wakefield (9-8, 4.39)

The game will be on NESN.

Boston weather:

1 pm observation at KBOS: Wind out of the north at 9 mph, with gusts to 17 mph, visibility 10 miles, few clouds at 5,500 feet, scattered clouds at 25,000 feet, temperature 80F, DP 54F.

Forecast: It's so nice to be on the dry side of the front! It'll be warm, with low humidity and light winds blowing across from left toward right, but later coming around from the west to southwest, which will be blowing out toward left/left center.

Its crazy that Wakefield has a lower ERA than Halladay.

Also unusual that Wakes has had a decision in every one single one of his games pitched. Keep that going, with a W of course.

Sox hitters v. Halladay (minimum 20 plate appearances, sorted by OPS)

[codebox] PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS
-----------------+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+
David Ortiz 70 66 19 6 0 5 18 3 10 .288 .329 .606 .935
Kevin Youkilis 27 23 8 2 0 0 2 4 3 .348 .444 .435 .879
Coco Crisp 21 21 7 1 0 1 1 0 1 .333 .333 .524 .857
Manny Ramirez 75 69 18 3 0 3 10 6 15 .261 .320 .435 .755
Jason Varitek 59 53 13 4 0 1 9 6 14 .245 .322 .377 .699
Julio Lugo 39 37 9 0 0 1 2 2 6 .243 .282 .324 .606[/codebox]


Jays hitters v. Wakefield (minimum 20 plate appearances, sorted by OPS)

[codebox] PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS
-----------------+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+
Frank Thomas 50 43 9 2 0 4 7 6 14 .209 .300 .535 .835
Matt Stairs 45 39 10 5 0 1 5 5 7 .256 .356 .462 .818
Royce Clayton 40 39 12 3 0 1 2 1 3 .308 .325 .462 .787
Troy Glaus 29 25 6 2 0 1 4 4 5 .240 .345 .440 .785
Vernon Wells 45 40 11 2 0 0 2 4 5 .275 .356 .325 .681
Alexis Rios 24 24 5 1 1 1 3 0 4 .208 .208 .458 .666
Reed Johnson 21 18 2 1 0 0 0 2 7 .111 .238 .167 .405[/codebox]

Is anyone alarmed that as of now, Jeff Bailey hasn't been demoted? If Youk doesn't play tonight after the all-star rest, I'm gonna be worried.

Why yes, that IS rather alarming. WIN ANYWAY!!!

Why is Drew leading off tonight? Why not Coco?

CUT TEH WAKEIFLED!!1111 HE'S OLD AND ONLY HAS ONE PITCH!

From The Joy of Sox

Drew, RF
Pedroia, 2B
Ortiz, DH
Ramirez, LF
Youkilis, 1b
Lowell, 3B
Crisp, CF
Mirabelli, C
Lugo, SS

Excellent. That's as ideal a lineup as I can think of, given that Mirabelli and Lugo "have" to play.

07/12 17:08:18 ET

Watching Wake pitch is like having a tooth drilled... you never know WHEN the sharp pain is coming... You know it's coming...

Therefore watching Roy Halladay pitch would be like ... a root canal without anesthesia?

I just had my tooth drilled. Thanks for reminding me.

Ok, say hello to the 2nd half of the season, when Drew is going to hit .350 with 20 homers.

Pedroia is like a mini-Youk when it comes to working the pitch count.

I'm lovin' the 2nd half already!

God Dustin is awsome. He should have been an All-Star.

Worry not. He will be rookie of the year to compensate for that.

Papi and Manny getting back-to-back RBIs. Like old times.

Idk, It's going to be a tight race with DiceK and Okajima in the mix

Wait, you can string togther base hits?

Let's not aim so low...

WS MVP sounds nice!



I heard that rumor about base hits... I'm not buying it...

Wow, nice little first inning outburst from our RBI guys. Good start!

Great base running by Coco.

What happened? I'm at work and trying to follow the game on Gameday, but they're not very detailed.

Lugo hit a chopper to the 3B who missed played it. Coco took a round turn at 3B and got picked off to end the inning.

Wow, way to kill a rally....

And since you can't see the game. It looked like Lugo had a chance at a DP and instead went to 1B. Greg Zaun is not fast. He's out even if they try at 2B.

Thanks for the updates, it's greatly appreciated.

and again 4 points guys!! let's go!

Wow 10 pitch at-bat and he walks, nice way to start an inning

There is no such thing as a shift for Oritz. TWO bullets right by it.

Note to Halladay. Don't get that close to Manny again.

Workin the count, I like it.

...nice efficient inning. Keep Doc Halliday on the ropes!

You guys are killing me with these avatars

Lugo is back over the Mendoza Line.

82 pitches through 3 innings for Halladay.

He's pitched complete games with about that many pitches.

How you doin', Toronto bullpen?

It would be kinda nice to have their pen a bit tired for tomorrow.

Niiiiiice out!!!

Manny with the gun!!

A great arm beats blazing speed every time.

TB trying to do some damage over Pettite. Bases loaded.

So this avatar thing...I'm not really all that confused by it.

Except when mp33 posts.

Didn't really check the site the last two days, so I didn't noticed I won that game and thought something would be wrong with firefox and I cleaned my cache several time, hehe.
But there's an alternative avatar I made and offer ^^

We could have had him out of the game by the first inning. What's he doing still there?

I think it's time to score some runs again =/

Uh oh! Stairs with a bomb. Cmon Timmy get though this!

God Wake drives me nuts.

6 innings in the books. Time to send Timmy to the shower!! (Before he gives us all heartburn)

Same ol' Wakefield.

So much for a good-sized lead.

UMMM...did anyone else's NESN just go to commercial even though Pedroia was SAFE????

yep