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Phillies-Rockies Game Snowed Out!
Snow covers the playing surface of Coors Field, seen from the main concourse Saturday in Denver.
Hey Al Gore… Where is your God now?
Colorado manager Jim Tracy suspected this might not be a night for baseball when even his dogs wanted to skip the morning walk.
Major League Baseball agreed with Tracy’s beagles.
Game 3 of the Phillies-Rockies playoff on Saturday night has been postponed because of cold, snowy weather.
Snow covers the playing surface of Coors Field, seen from the main concourse Saturday in Denver.
Major League Baseball rescheduled the game for Sunday night at 10:07 p.m. ET, and Game 4 was pushed back to Monday, at a time to be determined. Game 5, if necessary, will be played as scheduled on Tuesday in Philadelphia, without a day off for travel.
“I think it’s a very wise decision,” Tracy told The Associated Press by phone. “You could have something happen in weather like this where you could lose a player for half a year in 2010. I don’t think that would be good for anybody.”
Jacoby Ellsbury Steals Home
This is pretty cool. It’s not too often that we see a player steal home.
Jacoby Ellsbury studied Andy Pettitte’s slow windup. He took a few steps toward home. Then he took off.
The Red Sox speedster slid headfirst, stirred up a cloud of dirt and looked at plate umpire Gary Cederstrom. Safe. “The biggest thing is getting the courage to go, I guess. In that situation, bases loaded, you’ve got to make it,” Ellsbury said after a 4-1 win Sunday night gave the Red Sox their 10th straight win and a three-game sweep of the New York Yankees. “I was pretty confident that I could get in there.”
His first steal of home since before college came in a three-run fifth inning after New York’s Brett Gardner and Boston’s David Ortiz hit sacrifice flies in the third.
Ellsbury decided to run after watching the left-hander’s previous pitch. Batter J.D. Drew didn’t know that but, as a left-handed hitter, saw him running and sliding under Jorge Posada’s swipe.
So did Pettitte.
“Obviously, that’s frustrating,” Pettitte said. “I was in the windup. I should have been in the stretch. Jorgie told me to keep an eye on him. I saw him in the corner of my eye and tried to speed up my windup.”
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