June 1st, Ninth inning, Fenway Park: Scott Proctor throws a high pitch near the chin of Youkilis. Both benches clear, no punches thrown. Proctor ejected from the game, talks to every reporter he can to apologize, looks as scared as me in a haunted house one year (yeah I am scared of the dark, I know kinda wussy.) Fires a dead Sox team up....they score two in the inning. Still a loss but a sign of life.
This is how we enter this game. Emotions high, fans on the edge of their seat and a Sox team that was recently awakened. This is going to be good.
Tied 1 - 1 after the second. Red Sox load the bases with no outs. Varitek grounds into a sure double play, Robinson Cano fields the ball and instead of throwing to second decides to tag Lowell coming from first. Bad choice. Lowell lays him out and somehow Cano still pulls of the throw to first(this is all legal by the way, Cano was in the base path, besides nothing beats A-rod's dirty play this year. I wonder if Lowell yelled "mine" when he hit Cano. Cano calls it dirty after the game leading to my new favorite post game comment. When asked about the play Lowell responds "They taught me how to do it."Priceless.) This sends a message that the Sox were there to play. No retaliation, unfortunately cuz every time we brawl with them we go on a tear but I guess we can't get much better this year, but this is most likely due to the Rain Delay in the fourth.
Back on the field 3 - 1 Sox and Schilling, who looked unhittable early, now looks like me pitching( I once hit 73 on a radar gun, thought my arm broke off, but still impressive for my size.) Four run inning for the Yanks and they lead 5 to 3 (At this point I am "trying" to eat at work, I say this because I was unable to keep food down, yeah I have a problem I know.)
THANK GOD FOR MIKE LOWELL. Goes deep into the monster and Varitek homers behind him. Tie ball game. I would like to know if other people think that this combo has been just as dangerous and Papi and Manny this year. I truly believe so.
Jeter hits a solo shot off Joel Piniero to give them the lead back. Cut to the obvious FOX scene of Jeter explaining how far it went. Someone needs to tell FOX that these guys are 12.5 back, seriously.
Jeter makes up for it with two errors in the 7th which lead to five runs. If you haven't seen the video, he leaves Mientkewicz out to dry and a charging Lowell runs into him (truly an accident, Jeter should be paying his hospital bill because this throw was terrible.) Sox take the lead and the game is essentially over.
A couple notes:
Okajima gets his first win in the Majors. This guy has been our best Japanese pitcher. He should get Dice-k's 51 million.
Youkilis' hitting streak is over at 23 games. Very impressive. He takes the walk in the late innings to help the team instead of swinging at bad pitches to extend the streak. This is truly a remarkable team.
Yankee's announce Roger Clemens will miss his first start with a minor groin injury. Luckily he has $28 million to go to the doctor and get it fixed. This announcement was met with the Fenway crowd chanting "Where is Roger?" How do I always miss these things. Oh yeah my "other" life.
Luckily tonight I will be out in time for the game. I will be attempting to post a running diary of me watching the game from home. So check back later tonight for that.
8:05 start. "The Unbeaten" Josh Beckett (8-0) against "Where's my run support? And by the way where is Roger?" Andy Pettite (3-4). Oh no, I think I jinxed Beckett.....damn it. Oh well at least I didn't say "The Unbeatable." Now I've done it.
Where I want to be
This is how we enter this game. Emotions high, fans on the edge of their seat and a Sox team that was recently awakened. This is going to be good.
Tied 1 - 1 after the second. Red Sox load the bases with no outs. Varitek grounds into a sure double play, Robinson Cano fields the ball and instead of throwing to second decides to tag Lowell coming from first. Bad choice. Lowell lays him out and somehow Cano still pulls of the throw to first(this is all legal by the way, Cano was in the base path, besides nothing beats A-rod's dirty play this year. I wonder if Lowell yelled "mine" when he hit Cano. Cano calls it dirty after the game leading to my new favorite post game comment. When asked about the play Lowell responds "They taught me how to do it."Priceless.) This sends a message that the Sox were there to play. No retaliation, unfortunately cuz every time we brawl with them we go on a tear but I guess we can't get much better this year, but this is most likely due to the Rain Delay in the fourth.
Back on the field 3 - 1 Sox and Schilling, who looked unhittable early, now looks like me pitching( I once hit 73 on a radar gun, thought my arm broke off, but still impressive for my size.) Four run inning for the Yanks and they lead 5 to 3 (At this point I am "trying" to eat at work, I say this because I was unable to keep food down, yeah I have a problem I know.)
THANK GOD FOR MIKE LOWELL. Goes deep into the monster and Varitek homers behind him. Tie ball game. I would like to know if other people think that this combo has been just as dangerous and Papi and Manny this year. I truly believe so.
Jeter hits a solo shot off Joel Piniero to give them the lead back. Cut to the obvious FOX scene of Jeter explaining how far it went. Someone needs to tell FOX that these guys are 12.5 back, seriously.
Jeter makes up for it with two errors in the 7th which lead to five runs. If you haven't seen the video, he leaves Mientkewicz out to dry and a charging Lowell runs into him (truly an accident, Jeter should be paying his hospital bill because this throw was terrible.) Sox take the lead and the game is essentially over.
A couple notes:
Okajima gets his first win in the Majors. This guy has been our best Japanese pitcher. He should get Dice-k's 51 million.
Youkilis' hitting streak is over at 23 games. Very impressive. He takes the walk in the late innings to help the team instead of swinging at bad pitches to extend the streak. This is truly a remarkable team.
Yankee's announce Roger Clemens will miss his first start with a minor groin injury. Luckily he has $28 million to go to the doctor and get it fixed. This announcement was met with the Fenway crowd chanting "Where is Roger?" How do I always miss these things. Oh yeah my "other" life.
Luckily tonight I will be out in time for the game. I will be attempting to post a running diary of me watching the game from home. So check back later tonight for that.
8:05 start. "The Unbeaten" Josh Beckett (8-0) against "Where's my run support? And by the way where is Roger?" Andy Pettite (3-4). Oh no, I think I jinxed Beckett.....damn it. Oh well at least I didn't say "The Unbeatable." Now I've done it.
Where I want to be
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DUSTIN FORGIVES YOU!!!
Just remember Dustin for President in '08!!!
www.pedroia/beckett08.com
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