[RedSoxAnni]

Game time: 7:05 pm

Scheduled starters: Jon Lester (15-9, 3.49) v. Alfredo Simon (4-9, 4.85)

The game will be on NESN and WEEI

Baltimore weather: 4 pm observation at KBWI: Wind out of the southeast at 8 pm, visibility 10 miles, few clouds at 2,500 feet, scattered clouds at 4,400 feet, broken layers at 9,000 and 14,000 feet, temperature 80F, DP 68F

Forecast: Warm and muggy with showers and thundershowers likely at some time during the evening. Right now the rain is to the south and to the northeast, but there is convection upstream and a good chance for some rain.

Maybe it will be like last night when it rained for about 10 minutes!



Meanwhile, down in St. Pete, the Yankees are starting Dellin Betances, who has 2/3 inning of major league pitching under his belt...

[RedSoxAnni]

Buchholz has been activated and will be in the 'pen tonight

[RedSoxAnni]

Boston                                  Baltimore                             
 ------                                  ---------                             
 
 Pos  Player               HR  RBI  AVG. Pos  Player              HR  RBI  AVG.
 ---  ------               --  ---  ---- ---  ------              --  ---  ----
  CF  Ellsbury, Jacoby     32  105  .322  2B  Andino, Robert       5   35  .263 
  2B  Pedroia, Dustin      20   89  .304  SS  Hardy, J.J.         29   78  .267 
  DH  Ortiz, David         29   96  .307  RF  Markakis, Nick      15   73  .285 
  1B  Gonzalez, Adrian     27  117  .338  DH  Guerrero, Vladimir  13   63  .292 
   C  Lavarnway, Ryan       2    8  .265   C  Wieters, Matt       22   68  .264 
  RF  Drew, J.D.            4   22  .221  CF  Jones, Adam         25   83  .281 
  SS  Scutaro, Marco        7   54  .297  1B  Reynolds, Mark      37   86  .220 
  LF  Crawford, Carl       11   56  .255  3B  Davis, Chris         2   13  .265 
  3B  Aviles, Mike          2    8  .258  LF  Reimold, Nolan      13   44  .246 
   P  Lester, Jon (15-9, 3.49)             P  Simon, Alfredo (4-9, 4.85)

[ghostoffoxx]

Baltimore has never beaten Lester...ever. That trend will not stop tonight.


Win.

[rominer]

There's a game today, right?

[Kid T]

rominer, on 28 September 2011 - 06:57 PM, said:

There's a game today, right?

Yes, the Rays play the Yankees. And the Yankees currently lead off a GS by Tex 5-0

[rominer]

Kid T, on 28 September 2011 - 07:02 PM, said:

Yes, the Rays play the Yankees. And the Yankees currently lead off a GS by Tex 5-0

Thank God the Yankees get their own rules. That 5 run homer is huge.

[rominer]

JJ Hardy is one of those Orioles players that I've really come to hate over the course of this season.

[The Ghost of Ned Martin]

**** me.

I hate the Orioles.

[rominer]

Weak ground ball to JJ Hardy, not getting it done.

Hard grounder that takes a bad hop and hits him in the face would have been a much better move by Drew there.

[FishCake]

Unacceptable. Win.

[rominer]

Is it me, or is Buck Showalter starting to develop some Mike Scioscia mannerisms?

[Kid T]

I will go postal if both the Rays and Red Sox lose tonight.

[rominer]

Pick up Scutaro's option RIGHT NOW.

[Love of Sox]

I heard that there is a hootenany going on in here.

[BigSlick]

That balk was all scutaro

[rominer]

I'm as happy as anyone about some of the things that are going on "around the majors" today…but I think they might be slightly overdoing the score updates. Seems very dangerous to me.

[Kid T]

Pedey!

[rominer]

Welcome back, Dustin Pedroia.

Tesh is still a horse-faced c**t, but I appreciate his efforts this evening.

[FishCake]

Thank you Pedroia.