There is some afternoon baseball taking place on Wednesday, June 25 as the Boston Red Sox finish up a nine-game road trip at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, Calif. against the Los Angeles Angels.
The game is scheduled to start at 4:07 p.m. EDT and will be broadcast on NESN and FanDuel Sports Network West Las Vegas 2. Fans looking to watch this MLB game for free can do so using DIRECTV, which offers a free trial, or FuboTV, which also offers a free trial and up to $25 off your first month. Fans can also watch MLB games for free through MLB.TV, which offers a free trial and has different packages to choose from, including one that allows fans to listen to radio broadcasts with no blackout restrictions.
The Red Sox are trying to avoid being swept for the first time since the end of May when they dropped three straight against the Milwaukee Brewers to start a road trip.
At 40-41, Boston is back below .500 for the first time since earlier this month, prior to when they swept the Yankees at Fenway Park in Boston.
Tuesday’s contest was closer than Monday’s and ended up in extra innings after the Angels tied the game at 1 with an eighth inning homer from second baseman Christian Moore. In the 10th, Boston infielder Marcelo Mayer singled to put the Red Sox back ahead. However, that lead was short-lived as Moore belted a second home run on the night, this time a 2-run walk-off jack that moved the home team to 39-40 on the year.
Once again, the Boston offense failed to generate much as the team only had five hits. The Red Sox are 3-5 through the first eight games of the road trip and have 52 hits, but 29 of those came in three games against the San Francisco Giants, meaning they’ve averaged less than five hits a game against the Seattle Mariners and Angels so far. And even in the Giants series, the Red Sox only managed to score more than 5 runs once, and they lost twice despite outhitting the home team in every game.
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Who: Boston Red Sox vs. Los Angeles Angels
When: Wednesday, June 25 at 4:07 p.m. EDT
Where: Angel Stadium in Anaheim, Calif.
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From racetrack to ballpark: Bristol’s MLB transformation shifts into high gear
By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer
Turning a racetrack into a baseball field worthy of hosting Major League Baseball takes time and a plan.
Demolition started in early June with heavy construction now in high gear to transform Bristol Motor Speedway into a ballpark — if only for the Aug. 2 Speedway Classic between the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds in the first MLB game in the state of Tennessee.
As of Tuesday, Bristol no longer is a racetrack.
“It’s not going to be good to have a 2-foot wall … in the outfield for a player to run into, so naturally those had to go,” Steve Swift, senior vice president of operations development for Speedway Motorsports, said.
Turning this track into a ballpark requires about 17,500 tons of gravel to level the infield. Murray Cook, president of BrightView Sports Turf Division, said trucks will start bringing in 340 tons of Pennsylvania clay for the playing surface later this week.
The grass will be synthetic with 124,000 square feet set to be laid down with this field using the same surface as the Blue Jays in Toronto. There will be fencing, padding and foul poles. Musco Sports Lighting is adding 215 lights to the top of the track so no ball should be lost in a shadow.
“The field obviously is a big part of this event, and we’re making it as major league level as it needs to be for this game,” Cook said.
Hosting an MLB game requires much more than just a field. BaAM is helping MLB and Bristol so that the teams have locker rooms complete with showers, strength and conditioning rooms, coach and trainers’ offices, batting cages and even a full weight room.
“Everything that we’re going to do is temporary in nature, and it’s been precisely planned layers and layers,” BaAM president Annemarie Roe said. “We have about 33 days from today until we hand over to baseball operations.”
There will be grandstands down both the first- and third-base lines with broadcast booths, camera platforms, media positions and video replay included along with audio and video components. Concessions and merchandise will be available for fans on game day.
For any players wanting to go over the wall, they’ll have to carry 400 feet to clear center field, 375 in the alleys and 330 down each base line.
True renovations always reveal something owners don’t expect. Same goes for Bristol officials who found out they won’t have to replace everything after Aug. 2.
Swift said they won’t have to replace the Sunoco pumps and tanks with NASCAR now bringing those to each race. The Sunoco signs also are gone to avoid sitting in center field. Half an infield building was removed to clear space for the outfield wall.
Bristol has loads of experience with extreme track makeovers from bringing in dump trucks of dirt for races. This track hosted a college football game in the Battle of Bristol, drawing an NCAA-record 156,990 fans in 2016.
Interest has been big, and MLB is planning a lot of events before the first pitch with Pitbull and Tim McGraw already set for a pregame concert from a stage in the infield.
Country star Jake Owen will highlight more performances outside the track announced Tuesday. The fan zone also will feature the Commissioner’s Trophy, a 110-foot Ferris wheel, a food truck row, pitching tunnels and batting cages, team mascots and being Bristol — branded MLB stock cars for photos.
Bristol will have a chance at the record for the largest crowd to see a baseball game. A March 2008 exhibition between the Red Sox and Dodgers at Los Angeles Coliseum drew 115,300.
Once the Reds and Braves wrap up and all the fans leave, the next challenge begins. Bristol will race against the clock to turn the field back into a track for a night race in the NASCAR playoffs Sept. 13.
“There’s the right way, the wrong way, and the speedway,” Swift said.
The Associated Press contributed to this post