Projo Sox Blog

DENVER -- I didn't go from Invesco Field to Coors Field after Sunday's Patriots game, although, even after detailing the demise of the Pats at the hands of wunderkind coach Josh McDaniels' Broncos, I still could have arrived in the early innings, thanks to MLB's unconscionably late start in bitterly cold weather.

The radio station broadcasting Game Three of the NLDS series between the Rockies and Phillies -- which had been postponed from Saturday because of snow flurries in the Mile High City -- said it was 28 degrees at 8:07 Mountain Time, when the first pitch was thrown. That's 10:07 Eastern time, for those night-owls watching at home.

The television types said it 31 degrees, which may only mean there was more hot air in their broadcast booth.

The Rockies, perhaps trying to make their (fool?)hardy fans feel a bit warmer, announced the game-time temperature as 35 degrees, which tied the all-time low for a postseason game set in Cleveland in 1997, in Game Four of the World Series between the Indians and Florida Marlins, who obviously --and understandably -- felt like frozen fish out of water in a 10-3 loss.

But I have to think it seemed even colder in Boston.

As cold, perhaps, as the Red Sox bats.

Jacoby Ellsbury was Boston's leading hitter in the painfully-short, three-game ALDS, even though his average was a mediocre .250 (3-for-12, with a triple.)

David Ortiz was 1-for-12. So was Kevin Youkilis. Dustin Pedroia was 2-for-12. Jason Bay was 1-for-8. Boston's only homer in three games came from from J.D. Drew, who was 2-for-9.

The Sox weren't just cold at the plate against the Angels. They were frigid.

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