[RedSoxAnni]

Game time: 1:05 pm

Scheduled starters:

BC - Geoff Oxley

Sox - Josh Beckett


Fort Myers weather: Noon observation at Page Field: Wind out of the east at 12 mph, visibility 10 miles, sky clear, temperature 74F, DP 47F

Forecast: Blue skies, warm breezes, and baseball!


Lineup:

Julio Lugo, ss
Rocco Baldelli, lf
David Ortiz, dh
J.D. Drew, rf
Chris Carter, 1b
George Kottaras, c
Jonathan Van Every, cf
Nick Green, 2b
Angel Chavez, 3b

Scheduled pitchers:

Josh Beckett
Clay Buchholz
Kris Johnson
Junichi Tazawa
Felix Doubront
Daniel Bard

[SFFM38]

Sweet! Prediction. Sox 13-0!

[RedSoxAnni]

BC Lineup:

Boston College
J.B. MacDonald, DH
Harry Darling, C
Mike Augustine, 1B
Sam Shaughnessy, LF (Dan's son!)
Barry Butera, RF
Robbie Anston, CF
Matt Hamlet, 2B
Garret Smith, SS
Mickey Wiswall, 3B

Geoff Oxley, SP

[RedSoxAnni]

Some pre-game photos:

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2009/02/25/sox_04__1235581642_4390.jpg

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2009/02/25/sox_03__1235581510_7097.jpg

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2009/02/25/sox_05__1235581767_5680.jpg



http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2009/02/25/sox_08__1235582035_7619.jpg

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2009/02/25/sox_01__1235581208_8974.jpg

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2009/02/25/sox_06__1235581862_6444.jpg

[RedSoxAnni]

from the Herald

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Josh Beckett has concluded his spring debut, tossing two perfect innings. He retired all six BC Eagles he faced, including two called strikeouts.

The game is scoreless heading into the third inning.

[RedSoxAnni]

From Joe McDonald, ProJo

FORT MYERS, Fla. _ No, not that Clemens.

Boston College pitcher Dane Clemens -- no relation to Roger -- worked the bottom of the third inning for the Eagles and retired Julio Lugo (ground out to third), Rocco Baldelli (line out to second) and David Ortiz (fly out to center).

The at-bat against Ortiz was an interesting one. Clemens threw a couple of off-speed pitches for strikes, which got a nod of approval from the Red Sox slugger. But when Clemens challenged him with a fastball, Ortiz crushed it to deep center field onlyl to be caught at the wall for the final out.

Clemens was greeted by all of his teammates as he walked off the field.

[RedSoxAnni]

Final, Sox 7, BC 1

More info to follow...

[SuperManny]

Good to see that baseball is back. It feels a little bit warmer already.

[Malzone64]

RedSoxAnni, on Feb 25 2009, 10:28 AM, said:

Some pre-game photos:
http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2009/02/25/sox_04__1235581642_4390.jpg

All the BC kids are watching Varitek hit? Oh, right-handed. :unsure:

[RedSoxAnni]

***** Preseason Boxscore - Boston College at Boston Red Sox *****	   
						   (Wednesday, February 25th)						  
 
							 From The Sports Network						   
 
  Boston College					 ab  r  h  2b  3b  hr  rbi  avg.
 MacDonald, James dh				  1  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
  Payne, Spenser of				   1  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
  Lawrence, Andrew ph-dh			  0  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
 Darling, Harry c					 1  1  0   0   0   0	0  .000
  Moir, Rob rf						1  0  1   0   0   0	0 1.000
 Augustine, Mike 1b				   2  0  1   0   0   0	0  .500
  Zapenas, Brad 2b-ss				 1  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
 Shaughnessy, Sam lf				  1  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
  Spatola, John ph-lf				 2  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
 Butera, Barry rf					 1  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
  Belfiore, Michael ph-1b			 2  0  2   0   0   0	1 1.000
 Anston, Robbie cf					1  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
  Sudol, Mike ph-cf				   2  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
 Hamlet, Matt 2b					  1  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
  Sanchez, Tony c					 2  0  1   0   0   0	0  .500
 Smith, Garret ss-3b				  2  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
  Prohovich, Kyle ph-p				1  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
 Wiswall, Mickey 3b				   1  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
  Melchionda, Anthony ph-3b-2b		2  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
  Totals							 25  1  5   0   0   0	1  
 
  Boston							 ab  r  h  2b  3b  hr  rbi  avg.
 Lugo, Julio ss					   1  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
  Navarro, Yamaico ss				 2  2  2   1   0   1	2 1.000
 Baldelli, Rocco lf				   3  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
  Pritz, Bryan rf					 1  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
 Ortiz, David dh					  2  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
  Guerrero, Ino ph-dh				 0  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
  Corsaletti, Jeffrey pr-dh		   1  1  0   0   0   0	0  .000
 Drew, J.D. rf						0  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
  Bell, Bubba ph-rf-cf				1  1  0   0   0   0	0  .000
 Carter, Chris 1b					 2  0  1   1   0   0	3  .500
 Kottaras, George c				   2  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
  Wagner, Mark ph-c				   1  0  1   0   0   0	0 1.000
 Van Every, Jonathan cf			   3  1  1   0   0   0	0  .333
  Negron, Kristopher lf			   0  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
 Green, Nick 2b					   2  1  2   1   0   0	0 1.000
  Natale, Jeff 2b					 1  0  0   0   0   0	0  .000
 Chavez, Angel 3b					 3  1  1   1   0   0	2  .333
  Totals							 25  7  8   4   0   1	7  
 
  Boston College	0 0 0  1 0 0  0  --  1
  Boston			0 0 0  0 6 1  X  --  7
 
 LOB_Boston College 5, Boston 5. 2B_Y.Navarro, C.Carter, N.Green, A.Chavez. HR_Y.
 (B.Zapenas and M.Belifore).
 
  Boston College			  IP	  H  R ER BB SO   ERA
 Oxley, Geoff				  1	  0  0  0  2  1   0.00
 O'Brien, Matt				 1	  1  0  0  0  0   0.00
 Clemens, Dane				 1	  0  0  0  0  0   0.00
 O'Keefe, Tim				  1	  0  0  0  1  0   0.00
 Prohovich, Kyle (L 0-1)	  1-3	 4  6  6  2  1  162.00
 Kowalski, Chris			  2-3	 2  0  0  0  1   0.00
 Laufer, Dave				  1	  1  1  1  0  1   9.00
 
  Boston					  IP	  H  R ER BB SO   ERA
 Beckett, Josh				 2	  0  0  0  0  2   0.00
 Buchholz, Clay				1	  0  0  0  0  1   0.00
 Johnson, Kris				 1	  2  1  1  1  2   9.00
 Tazawa, Junichi (W 1-0)	   1	  0  0  0  0  0   0.00
 Doubront, Felix			   1	  1  0  0  0  1   0.00
 Bard, Daniel				  1	  2  0  0  0  2   0.00
 
 Umpires_Home, Steve Christnacht; First, Lee Champhene; Second,; Third, Ed Kowal
 
 02/25 17:30:45 ET

[fenwayfreak]

Malzone64, on Feb 25 2009, 05:45 PM, said:

All the BC kids are watching Varitek hit? Oh, right-handed. :unsure:

Harold Reynolds was talking about this the other day on the MLB network. He was talking about a switch hitter moving to only one side of the plate, and said that when he was playing, the thought of facing a right-handed pitcher from the right side of the plate (or vice versa) was very uncomfortable. As he put it, a career switch-hitter has been looking at pitches from the opposite hand pretty much his whole baseball life (Little League, college, minors, majors). To hit only from one side would be far worse than having a negative split righty vs. lefty.

I hadn't really thought of it that way. Reynolds was saying that if Varitek moved to only one side of the plate, fans would be screaming for him to go back to switch-hitting pretty quickly.

[RedSoxAnni]

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2009/02/25/1-beckett__1235594735_7525.jpg

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2009/02/25/5-taz__1235595597_5471.jpg

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2009/02/25/6-ortiz__1235595721_3430.jpg

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2009/02/25/4-ortiz__1235595362_6052.jpg