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from rockies reporter this morning...
Wind will likely be a factor today; a look at Rox-Phillies? lineups
PHILADELPHIA ? Every angle of this series has been analyzed. From the pitchers. To the sluggers. Apparently we forgot Mother Nature. Arriving at the ballpark an hour ago, the wind is blowing like crazy from left to right field. Put it this way, you can hear the centerfield flags flapping from 500 feet away as if they are above my seat in the press box. The Rockies picked a good day to have Ubaldo Jimenez on the mound.
He can struggle with his control at times, but one thing he consistently does is keep the ball in the park. Again, the wind is only supposed to get stronger so I would be shocked if it?s not a factor on a pop-up or ball into the gap.
?They have eyes. They will see flags standing straight up. My experience is that if the ball is barreled up and hit well to right field, it will leave the ballpark,? Tracy said today.
A look again at the Rockies? lineup:
CF Dexter Fowler
LF Carlos Gonzalez
1B Todd Helton
SS Troy Tulowitzki
3B Garrett Atkins
C Yorvit Torrealba
RF Brad Hawpe
2B Clint Barmes
RHP Ubaldo Jimenez
Phillies? lineup
SS Jimmy Rollins
CF Shane Victorino
2B Chase Utley
1B Ryan Howard
RF Jayson Werth
LF Raul Ibanez
3B Pedro Feliz
C Carlos Ruiz
P Cliff Lee
Wind will likely be a factor today; a look at Rox-Phillies? lineups
PHILADELPHIA ? Every angle of this series has been analyzed. From the pitchers. To the sluggers. Apparently we forgot Mother Nature. Arriving at the ballpark an hour ago, the wind is blowing like crazy from left to right field. Put it this way, you can hear the centerfield flags flapping from 500 feet away as if they are above my seat in the press box. The Rockies picked a good day to have Ubaldo Jimenez on the mound.
He can struggle with his control at times, but one thing he consistently does is keep the ball in the park. Again, the wind is only supposed to get stronger so I would be shocked if it?s not a factor on a pop-up or ball into the gap.
?They have eyes. They will see flags standing straight up. My experience is that if the ball is barreled up and hit well to right field, it will leave the ballpark,? Tracy said today.
A look again at the Rockies? lineup:
CF Dexter Fowler
LF Carlos Gonzalez
1B Todd Helton
SS Troy Tulowitzki
3B Garrett Atkins
C Yorvit Torrealba
RF Brad Hawpe
2B Clint Barmes
RHP Ubaldo Jimenez
Phillies? lineup
SS Jimmy Rollins
CF Shane Victorino
2B Chase Utley
1B Ryan Howard
RF Jayson Werth
LF Raul Ibanez
3B Pedro Feliz
C Carlos Ruiz
P Cliff Lee
from phillies reporter....
The forecasts were right.
The wind will be an issue.
It is blowing and blowing hard from leftfield to right field. Sitting here in the press box, the tallest flag pole in centerfield in Citizens Bank Park, the pole holding the American flag, is moving in the wind -- not the flag, the pole itself. The flag is wrapped around the pole, the wind having spun it and spun it and spun it again around its spindle.
None of the flags have shredded -- it isn't like that, not yet. But the forecast was for 40-plus mph gusts and you have to believe it. The flag of the city is starched in blue and yellow. The red 2008 championship flag has wrapped once around the pole so that only the 008 is showing. The smaller white flags, of division championships gone by, are waving and attentive. All of it out toward rightfield.
Any fly ball hit higher than Harry the K's restaurant in left field -- higher than that structure -- will officially be an adventure. Because the wind will catch it, will grab it, will alter its flight at the least and carry it to Camden at the worst.
We could be talking about this for years.
And under 3 hours before the first pitch, the red flag in centerfield is down to 08 being visible. And it continues to howl.
The forecasts were right.
The wind will be an issue.
It is blowing and blowing hard from leftfield to right field. Sitting here in the press box, the tallest flag pole in centerfield in Citizens Bank Park, the pole holding the American flag, is moving in the wind -- not the flag, the pole itself. The flag is wrapped around the pole, the wind having spun it and spun it and spun it again around its spindle.
None of the flags have shredded -- it isn't like that, not yet. But the forecast was for 40-plus mph gusts and you have to believe it. The flag of the city is starched in blue and yellow. The red 2008 championship flag has wrapped once around the pole so that only the 008 is showing. The smaller white flags, of division championships gone by, are waving and attentive. All of it out toward rightfield.
Any fly ball hit higher than Harry the K's restaurant in left field -- higher than that structure -- will officially be an adventure. Because the wind will catch it, will grab it, will alter its flight at the least and carry it to Camden at the worst.
We could be talking about this for years.
And under 3 hours before the first pitch, the red flag in centerfield is down to 08 being visible. And it continues to howl.
