Blogger Baseball Scorecard: Toronto Blue Jays @ Colorado Rockies

June 11, 2010, 9:10 PM ET
Toronto Blue Jays @ Colorado Rockies - Game 1
Coors Field, Denver, Colorado
Weather: 15°C | 60°F
Mostly Cloudy, Wind: NE at 11 kph | 7 mph (RH)
Starting Pitchers: Ricky Romero (5-2, 3.06 ERA) - Ubaldo Jimenez (11-1, 0.93 ERA)

RAIN??? Yes, rain - it's raining in Denver. Not in the forecast from earlier today.

My forecast from looking at the Denver Weather Underground local site and Environment Canada's national satellite image browser; a warm air mass moving north is contacting a cold area over the interior mountains. The cloud system that is pouring rain on the field formed in the last hour - and could stay - as the cold system seems stationary while the warm southerly continues...

We are waiting though; if they call the game, I will say so here.

The latest from the Fan590 rain delay show's Mike Wilner, start time is 10:45.

Yay. Baseball.

10:51 - Umpire, managers are exchanging lineup cards.

First Pitch: 10:55

Notes:

Bottom of 1st
Raining hard again.

Bottom of 6th
Pouring rain again. Off and on sometimes REALLY on - like now.
On Ryan Spilborghs 2BH9 Fred Lewis comes in and immediately backs up, it's over his head to the base of the wall. It's raining so hard the camera can't read the flight of the ball. I expect the field so wet they're walking on banana peels out there. You have to be careful when you start, and stopping.

Bottom 6th
* Carlos Gonzalez at bat, foul ball goes towards the camera bay on the 3B side, out of play. Buck falls and hits the low wire mesh wall in front of the camera bay awkwardly as his feet got held up in a deep mud-lake there. Also, third base cut out is a lake towards the outfield - not quite to the bag. Gonzalez stikes out on the next pitch to end the inning.

Top of the 7th
Umpires have ordered the tarp on the field. In my opinion they'll try to play the rest of the game hoping the rain stops and the field dries a bit to until 1:00 AM local time when MLB rules forbade an new inning beginning (that's in 2 hours from now) - then they'll call it a Rockies win.

I'll call it now.

Final in 6 innings:
Toronto 3
Denver 5

Oh, and since it appears I can read a satellite weather map and give a short term weather forecast (see my pre-game weather forecast) - I'm officially as good a Weatherman as those personalities on local TV (and so can you be too); and, for the record, I believe global warming is happening and is caused by human activity.
(re: George Mason University, Center of Climate Communication: "A National Survey Of Television Meteorologists About Climate Change:
Preliminary Findings" pdf)

Update 1:32 AM EDT | 11:32 PM MDT: The game is called a rain out by the Umpire.

Thanks to "ESPN Boxscore" for the lineups, and "ESPN Play by Play" for help - once.


Final (called due to rain)	1	2	3	4	5	6	R	H	E
Toronto Blue Jays	0	1	2	0	0	0	3	5	0
Colorado Rockies	0	2	0	1	1	1	5	9	0


Toronto Blue Jays	1		2		3		4		5		6		7	8	9		H	AB	BB	R	RBI	LOB	PO	A	E
1. F Lewis RF	BX	6-3			BBB CB	BB <>			CFB BFB X	BH8 X
2. A Hill 2B	BBB CFX	5-3			X	HR7 2RBI <>			BX	FC 6-4 -
3. A Lind LF	BCX	3UA /			BFX	FO8(9)			CBS FS	Ks /
4. V Wells CF			BBB B	BB <>	BSB CX	4-3 /					X	2BH9 ---
5. J Bautista 3B			SBC BBC	#4 1,2 Ks			WW 2-2 X	4-3			SFB S	Ks
6. A Gonzalez SS			SX	PO6			BBB B?	BB ---			BCS S	Ks
7. L Overbay 1B			CBB CBX	3BH8 RBI ---			BCX	BH9 #6 1,3 X			BBB B	IBB =
8. J Buck C			BSF FC	K /			X	DP 6-4-3 X /			B BB B	pb #5 2,3 #7 1,2 IBB -
9. R Romero P 6th ph Jeremy Reed					SBC BBC	K /			CX	4-3	X	LD6 /
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/Inning Totals	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Totals
Runs	0	1	2	0	0	0						3
Hits	0	1	1	1	1	1						5
Errors	0	0	0	0	0	0						0
LOB	0	1	0	1	0	3						5

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	p/s	ERA
R Romero (L, 5-3)	5.0	7	4	4	1	5	2	74-50	3.29
Jason Frasor	0.1	2	0	0	1	1	0	15-7	5.18
Brian Tallet	0.2	0	0	0	0	1	0	7-6	5.46


Colorado Rockies	1		2		3		4		5		6		7	8	9		H	AB	BB	R	RBI	LOB	PO	A	E
1. C Gonzalez CF	CFS	Ks			CBB X	BH8 X			X	HR9 RBI <>	CBS F*S	Ks /
2. T Helton 1B	BFB X	3-1			CCS BFB X	DP 6-4-3 X			BBC CS	Ks
3. T Tulowitzki SS	X	FO8 /			BCS S	Ks /			BSB BB	BB =
4. B Hawpe RF			X	FO8			CBB X	LD6	BBX	#3 1,2 FO7 /
5. M Mora 3B			CX	6-3			BBF SS	Ks			X	IFBH6 <>
6. R Spilborghs LF			CCX	HR9 RBI <>			X	2BH7 <>			BBS SBX	2BH9 ---
7. M Olivo C			X	BH8 <>			BSX	BH7 RBI -			WW	Ks
8. C Barmes 2B			CFB FFB X	2BH7 RBI =			SC wpB S	#7 1,2 Ks /			BBB B	IBB -
9. U Jimenez P 6th ph Seth Smith			FX	4-3 /					BSX	1-3	SX	sac FO9 #6 2,3 RBI
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