7:52 FYI - I'm also taking questions by text and email, for use during any pitching changes / rain delays / blowout scenarios.
7:53 Coco Crisp leads off for the Red Hose, flies out to center.
7:54 The announcers tell us that Tropicana Field is sold out...reminding me of all those times in the 90's when the Braves couldn't sell out home playoff games in Atlanta. Braves fans Greg and Michael - what's up with that?
7:55 Pedroia draws a walk, and Ortiz doubles him over to third a moment later. That happened so quick, I hadn't even gotten my hand out of the Pringles can.
7:58 Youkilis with the RBI groundout that also advances Ortiz to third. And now I've got Pringles Cheddar Cheese dust on the bed. Meanwhile JD "Don't Call Me Doctor" Drew also walks.
7:59 We have our first meeting on the mound. Shields starts off Jason "Sittin' On The Dock of the" Bay with a 76 mph change up...which just happens to be twice as hard as I was able to throw a baseball at the County Fair in Big Spring a few weeks ago. Obviously, the speed gun was broke.
8:03 Bay walks, loading the bases for Mark Kotsay...giving me a chance to use one of my favorite baseball phrases - "the bases are drunk."
8:04 Kotsay and his not-even-to-the-warning-track pop out end the inning, stranding the inebriated baserunners...or something.
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