The Columbus Dispatch

Napoli injured in shivery loss

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IL UPDATE

second pitch.

“Right out the gate like that, it didn’t look great,” manager Chris Tremie said. “We’ll see how it is. Hopefully it looks better than what it looked like.”

Adam and Julia Felts stood underneath space heaters behind the loge seats behind home plate clad in full cold-weather gear.

“We’re here because of him,” Adam said, nodding toward son Noah, who was watching intently in the cold. “Winter is kind of annoying right now, but you have the whole stadium to yourself. That doesn’t happen very often. The decision was whether my wife was coming. (Noah) isn’t cold. He doesn’t feel it at all.”

Noah got a prize he will proudly show his Dublin Youth Associatio­n baseball teammates.

“One of the catchers gave him a ball because there was no one else around,” Julia said.

Martina Jakob dutifully kept statistics wearing gloves and knit hat and had a thick blanket covering her lap. She works for Baseball Info Solutions out of Boston.

“I’m working for a friend tonight because he’s working the Blue Jackets game, and I haven’t thawed out from last night,” Jakob said. “I do love baseball — it’s not for 30 bucks a game. I’ve been doing this for 15 years and there have been a lot of cold games. I was walking here from the parking lot and thinking, ‘Why am I doing this?’ ”

Trailing 3-0, the Clippers scored two runs in the second inning off Chandler Shepherd when Brandon Barnes doubled and scored and Giovanny Urshela added an RBI single.

Columbus made it 3-3 in the third on a double to the wall in left-center by Yu Chang, but the Red Sox got a run in the fourth on a single to the wall in left by Chad De La Guerra.

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