Scioscia: I’m naturally insulated for the cold

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It’s going to be cold tonight, very cold, with a wind-chill factor predicted as low as 25 degrees for Game 1 of the American League Championship Series.

‘Guys like myself, who are a little heavy, we get a natural advantage,’ Angels Manager Mike Scioscia said. ‘We’re fine with it. ... If you want to go out in short sleeves and show your tattoo off and do whatever, God bless you. If you want to go out there with 18 layers of clothes and you can still do what you can do to make a play, hey, we’re fine with that.’

Scioscia said the coldest game he ever played in was what Dodgers fans recall as the Rick Monday game. They still call it ‘Blue Monday’ in Montreal, that day in 1981 that Monday hit the home run that sent the Dodgers to the World Series and the Expos home for the winter.

‘Popup,’ Scioscia recalled. ‘I looked up and I was getting under it and catching it through the snowflakes.’

Did you catch it?
‘Yeah, I caught it,’ he said. ‘I think that surprised as many people as the weather.’

-- Bill Shaikin