Game time: 7:05 pm
Scheduled starters: Odalis Perez (4-8, 5.88) v. Julian Tavarez (5-7, 5.15)
The game will be on NESN.
Boston weather:
1 pm observation at KBOS: wind out of the south at 6 mph; visibility 3 miles in light rain, fog, mist; few clouds at 2,500 feet, 11,000 feet broken, 15,000 feet overcast; temperature 71F, DP 67F
Forecast:
This does not look good! We've got a warm front stalled across the Cape, and central RI and CT, and a stationary front west of that. The rain is moving along the front, and it is a lot of rain. The heaviest rain is staying south of Boston, but there's a chance for heavy rain later this evening. Although there hasn't been a lot of heating, there's still a chance for some embedded thunderstorms to crop up.
If they play tonight, it will be in the low 70s/upper 60s, with a light wind out of the southeast to south, which is blowing in from right/across from right to left. If they play, it will likely be in light rain.
Updates to follow.
Full Version: Kansas City at BOSTON, Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Man, this may be the 3rd rainout of the season out of my 10th Man ticket package!
Now KC doesn't return to Fenway this season & I wouldn't be able to get out of work tomorrow for a dbl header....so that all but seals the deal of the game being cancelled.
(EDIT) I posted my previous comments out of desperation in hopes that it'd sway the baseball gods into allowing this game to get off tonight. Of course now that I've included this 'edit' explaining my intent behind the initial post, I've probably cancelled out any of the mojo I've tried to conjure up. Stupid baseball gods and their endless toying with me).
Suppose the Sox bats having a day off couldn't hurt 'em though...
Now KC doesn't return to Fenway this season & I wouldn't be able to get out of work tomorrow for a dbl header....so that all but seals the deal of the game being cancelled.
(EDIT) I posted my previous comments out of desperation in hopes that it'd sway the baseball gods into allowing this game to get off tonight. Of course now that I've included this 'edit' explaining my intent behind the initial post, I've probably cancelled out any of the mojo I've tried to conjure up. Stupid baseball gods and their endless toying with me).
Suppose the Sox bats having a day off couldn't hurt 'em though...
Pray for the clouds!
If cloud-cover can remain robust enough behind the main precipitation shield, it'll hopefully keep daytime surface heating down and further convection from flaring up to the west. If we can keep it dry behind the rain right now, we might be able to get this initial "mess" of precip moved out enough to dodge the raindrops and get nine in sometime tonight.
If cloud-cover can remain robust enough behind the main precipitation shield, it'll hopefully keep daytime surface heating down and further convection from flaring up to the west. If we can keep it dry behind the rain right now, we might be able to get this initial "mess" of precip moved out enough to dodge the raindrops and get nine in sometime tonight.
Here's the Sox 3 pm Press Release - for those of you going to the game...
The current weather forecast (provided by the Red Sox private weather service, Meteorlogix) in the vicinity of Fenway Park calls for rain showers to dissipate as the afternoon and early evening progresses.
The Fenway Park gates will open at the regularly scheduled time of 5:05 p.m., and the Red Sox expect that tonight's game with the Kansas City Royals will begin at the scheduled starting time of 7:05 p.m. However, the Red Sox would like to alert our fans of the possibility for delay.
This forecast is of course subject to change as the day progresses. Additional updates will be provided as necessary.
It looks like the back edge of this batch of rain is just east of the Connecticut River. Worcester is reporting rain, but CEF and BAF are reporting fog/mist with no precip in the last hour.
However, there's some convection firing in the Albany area through SW VT.
As czar noted, the thicker cloud cover extends to about the central Berkshires. The cloud cover was breaking up earlier in the Hudson Valley, with the reporting stations noting a broken layer at around 6,000 feet. And now they've got heavy rain...
In the last couple hours, BOS reported a broken layer, but the stations west of Boston are all overcast., and Boston is reporting a low overcast now. I'm around 30 miles NW, and we've got a low broken layer with an overcast above.
Here's a "special" out of KBOS at 3:14 pm
Wind out of the east at 8 mph, visibility 3/4 mile in light rain, fog, mist; 700 broken, 1,500 overcast, temperature and dew point 67F.
The current weather forecast (provided by the Red Sox private weather service, Meteorlogix) in the vicinity of Fenway Park calls for rain showers to dissipate as the afternoon and early evening progresses.
The Fenway Park gates will open at the regularly scheduled time of 5:05 p.m., and the Red Sox expect that tonight's game with the Kansas City Royals will begin at the scheduled starting time of 7:05 p.m. However, the Red Sox would like to alert our fans of the possibility for delay.
This forecast is of course subject to change as the day progresses. Additional updates will be provided as necessary.
It looks like the back edge of this batch of rain is just east of the Connecticut River. Worcester is reporting rain, but CEF and BAF are reporting fog/mist with no precip in the last hour.
However, there's some convection firing in the Albany area through SW VT.
As czar noted, the thicker cloud cover extends to about the central Berkshires. The cloud cover was breaking up earlier in the Hudson Valley, with the reporting stations noting a broken layer at around 6,000 feet. And now they've got heavy rain...
In the last couple hours, BOS reported a broken layer, but the stations west of Boston are all overcast., and Boston is reporting a low overcast now. I'm around 30 miles NW, and we've got a low broken layer with an overcast above.
Here's a "special" out of KBOS at 3:14 pm
Wind out of the east at 8 mph, visibility 3/4 mile in light rain, fog, mist; 700 broken, 1,500 overcast, temperature and dew point 67F.
QUOTE(VoteRiceIn @ Jul 18 2007, 02:26 PM) [snapback]704428[/snapback]
Now KC doesn't return to Fenway this season & I wouldn't be able to get out of work tomorrow for a dbl header....so that all but seals the deal of the game being cancelled.
Sox do not play KC again, tommrow the Red Sox will face the CWS.
QUOTE(Red Sox Fan2 @ Jul 18 2007, 04:13 PM) [snapback]704458[/snapback]
Sox do not play KC again, tommrow the Red Sox will face the CWS.
Ahh, I see that now.
KC has an off day tomorrow - could they have a dbl header against two diff. teams on the same day? That'd be unusual....but from Anni's latest forecast it doesn't appear it'll be a decision that has to be made.
WIN it boyz!
Yah it looks real nice and non-rainy in Waltham right now, I think we got baseball tonight.
QUOTE(Ralpho316 @ Jul 18 2007, 05:08 PM) [snapback]704476[/snapback]
Yah it looks real nice and non-rainy in Waltham right now, I think we got baseball tonight.
It always looks real nice in the 'Ham....
It sure does, aside from the Sals Pizza fire that happened over the weekend, can still smell the smoke RIP Sals.
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Kansas City Boston
----------- ------
Pos Player HR RBI AVG. Pos Player HR RBI AVG.
--- ------ -- --- ---- --- ------ -- --- ----
CF DeJesus, David 5 33 .272 RF Drew, JD 6 33 .256
2B Grudzielanek, Mark 4 29 .277 2B Pedroia, Dustin 4 28 .311
RF Teahen, Mark 5 43 .284 DH Ortiz, David 16 59 .320
1B Butler, Billy 3 19 .301 LF Ramirez, Manny 13 53 .289
DH Gload, Ross 2 25 .262 1B Youkilis, Kevin 9 46 .316
3B Gordon, Alex 6 29 .236 3B Lowell, Mike 14 66 .307
LF Brown, Emil 4 38 .236 C Varitek, Jason 9 38 .275
SS Smith, Jason 1 1 .214 CF Crisp, Coco 5 30 .265
C LaRue, Jason 3 10 .179 SS Lugo, Julio 5 40 .217
P Perez, Odalis (4-8, 5.68) P Tavarez, Julian (5-7, 5.15)
----------- ------
Pos Player HR RBI AVG. Pos Player HR RBI AVG.
--- ------ -- --- ---- --- ------ -- --- ----
CF DeJesus, David 5 33 .272 RF Drew, JD 6 33 .256
2B Grudzielanek, Mark 4 29 .277 2B Pedroia, Dustin 4 28 .311
RF Teahen, Mark 5 43 .284 DH Ortiz, David 16 59 .320
1B Butler, Billy 3 19 .301 LF Ramirez, Manny 13 53 .289
DH Gload, Ross 2 25 .262 1B Youkilis, Kevin 9 46 .316
3B Gordon, Alex 6 29 .236 3B Lowell, Mike 14 66 .307
LF Brown, Emil 4 38 .236 C Varitek, Jason 9 38 .275
SS Smith, Jason 1 1 .214 CF Crisp, Coco 5 30 .265
C LaRue, Jason 3 10 .179 SS Lugo, Julio 5 40 .217
P Perez, Odalis (4-8, 5.68) P Tavarez, Julian (5-7, 5.15)
We need to win this tonight, the White Sox have been playing good baseball, we need something to build offa for that series
Just for good measure, I'll post this here.
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Kansas City ab r h 2b 3b hr rbi w k avg.
DeJesus, David cf 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .272
Grudzielanek, Mark 2b 4 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 .281
Teahen, Mark rf 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .284
Butler, Billy 1b 3 1 2 1 0 0 2 1 0 .311
German, Esteban pr-3b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .281
Gload, Ross dh 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 .256
Gordon, Alex 3b-1b 4 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 .240
Brown, Emil lf 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .236
Smith, Jason ss 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .200
LaRue, Jason c 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .173
Totals 34 6 9 2 0 0 6 1 8
Boston ab r h 2b 3b hr rbi w k avg.
Drew, JD rf 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .252
Pedroia, Dustin 2b 5 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 .316
Ortiz, David dh 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 .321
Cora, Alex pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .279
Ramirez, Manny lf 4 2 2 0 0 1 1 1 0 .292
Youkilis, Kevin 1b 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .313
Lowell, Mike 3b 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .306
Varitek, Jason c 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 .270
Crisp, Coco cf 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 .266
Lugo, Julio ss 4 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 .218
Totals 36 5 10 2 1 1 5 3 5
Kansas City 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 -- 6
Boston 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 -- 5
E_M.Lowell. LOB_Kansas City 3, Boston 8. 2B_M.Grudzielanek, B.Butler,
D.Pedroia, J.Lugo. 3B_C.Crisp. HR_M.Ramirez (14) off O.Perez. SF_R.Gload, J.Drew
Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO HR PC-ST ERA
Perez, Odalis (W 5-8) 5 7 5 5 2 2 1 95-61 5.84
Riske, David 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 8-7 2.47
Gobble, Jimmy 2-3 1 0 0 0 1 0 8-6 2.67
Soria, Joakim 1 1-3 1 0 0 1 1 0 33-21 1.98
Dotel, Octavio (S 10) 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 13-8 3.15
Boston IP H R ER BB SO HR PC-ST ERA
Tavarez, Julian (L 5-8) 4 2-3 9 6 4 0 3 0 76-51 5.27
Timlin, Mike 2 1-3 0 0 0 0 1 0 20-13 3.56
Delcarmen, Manny 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 17-8 1.23
Papelbon, Jonathan 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 11-8 1.82
T_3:08. A_36,681.
Umpires_Home, Larry Vanover; First, Tony Randazzo;
Second, Charlie Reliford; Third, Greg Gibson.
DeJesus, David cf 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .272
Grudzielanek, Mark 2b 4 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 .281
Teahen, Mark rf 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .284
Butler, Billy 1b 3 1 2 1 0 0 2 1 0 .311
German, Esteban pr-3b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .281
Gload, Ross dh 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 .256
Gordon, Alex 3b-1b 4 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 .240
Brown, Emil lf 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .236
Smith, Jason ss 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .200
LaRue, Jason c 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .173
Totals 34 6 9 2 0 0 6 1 8
Boston ab r h 2b 3b hr rbi w k avg.
Drew, JD rf 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .252
Pedroia, Dustin 2b 5 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 .316
Ortiz, David dh 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 .321
Cora, Alex pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .279
Ramirez, Manny lf 4 2 2 0 0 1 1 1 0 .292
Youkilis, Kevin 1b 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .313
Lowell, Mike 3b 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .306
Varitek, Jason c 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 .270
Crisp, Coco cf 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 .266
Lugo, Julio ss 4 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 .218
Totals 36 5 10 2 1 1 5 3 5
Kansas City 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 -- 6
Boston 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 -- 5
E_M.Lowell. LOB_Kansas City 3, Boston 8. 2B_M.Grudzielanek, B.Butler,
D.Pedroia, J.Lugo. 3B_C.Crisp. HR_M.Ramirez (14) off O.Perez. SF_R.Gload, J.Drew
Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO HR PC-ST ERA
Perez, Odalis (W 5-8) 5 7 5 5 2 2 1 95-61 5.84
Riske, David 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 8-7 2.47
Gobble, Jimmy 2-3 1 0 0 0 1 0 8-6 2.67
Soria, Joakim 1 1-3 1 0 0 1 1 0 33-21 1.98
Dotel, Octavio (S 10) 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 13-8 3.15
Boston IP H R ER BB SO HR PC-ST ERA
Tavarez, Julian (L 5-8) 4 2-3 9 6 4 0 3 0 76-51 5.27
Timlin, Mike 2 1-3 0 0 0 0 1 0 20-13 3.56
Delcarmen, Manny 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 17-8 1.23
Papelbon, Jonathan 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 11-8 1.82
T_3:08. A_36,681.
Umpires_Home, Larry Vanover; First, Tony Randazzo;
Second, Charlie Reliford; Third, Greg Gibson.
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