Rain Forces A Fenway Twin Bill On Saturday

A persistantly moderate rain wiped out any chance of Friday night baseball at beloved Fenway Park Friday night, so there will be a Saturday separate admission (of course) twin bill. The first game will start at 3:55pm EDT and the second at 8:35pm EDT. And it will be a scramble to clear the park of the first crowd and allow crowd #2 to file in. If the first game goes into extra innings, I shudder to think of the traffic situation in Boston. This is what someone who was there had to say about last night's eventual postponent...

“They thought approaching gametime we might start on time, and when we obviously weren’t, they kept every 15-20 minutes giving us an update, Red Sox manager Terry Francona said. Then it was progressively getting worse and it was supposed to get worse, so that’s when they started checking on other options."

Peter here, and we have to hope to win two. The bullpen is rested, heck, EVERYONE is rested and ready to go. The weather here in north central Connecticut will have intermittent showers ending in the mid-morning, with sun and clouds for the afternoon. In fact, I just looked up at the sky (at 6am), and there are absolutely NO clouds to be found. Guess where that clearing is headed? To Boston, which is 94 miles northeast of here, and since weather systems, non-tropical ones, that is, move from west to east, it's a sure thing that ANY inclement weather will not interfere with either game. The pitching matchups will be Jeff Suppan ready to face Daisuke Matsuzaka in the afternoon and Dave Bush versus Timmy Wakefield in the evening. May the force be with us to win two. For all the latest Sox news, just click on the title of this post. And GO SOX. Be well.
P.S. Mets win...Yankees lose...