Last night's 19-17 win is to date the game of the year. Last year's GOY was the Mother's Day Miracle win over Baltimore. Lucky enough to be in the crowd, I had the full range of emotions.
Rookie Charlie Zink starts the game against the powerful Ranger line up and mixes his knuckle ball with a 80-82 mph fastball. Top of the inning goes well bottom of the inning is unbelievable. Papi hits a missile deep into the right field grandstand seats with two on. Lowrie hits a two run double. Papi hits a bomb to the triangle in center another three run homer. Let me tell you, the crowd was going nuts. Sox fans, unlike Laker fans, always show up for game time. Myself and my three buddies all joked that we should had home because the game was over with a 10-0 lead after one inning.
Lead was 12-2 when Zink started to get tattooed. He was not fooling anyone. Javier Lopez enters and departs giving up a run and getting one out. Aardsma gets an out but gives up four runs. Delcarmen gets rocked. Elation turned to desperation. Double, single, walk, double, single, double, single, Kinsler's moon shot!! A 10 run lead becomes a 16-14 deficit. Unreal. Crowd actually turned and started booing the relievers.
Pedrioa's double that scored Ellsbury from first got the Sox within 16-15. Okajima actually pitched a perfect inning in the eighth. Then you have Youkilis' homer that he crushed. To top it off Paplebon closes it out with the entire place standing.
This was one of the most memorable regular games I have ever witnessed firsthand. Thirty-six runs and a ten run first inning don't happen everyday. This would have been a devastated loss. Instead we can hope that this propels the team to more wins. The time is now.
2 comments:
“Classic” win by the good guys last night. Could have been a crushing loss. Would have been nice if Zink could have gotten his first ML win but we’ll take it. Picking up veteran Paul Byrd was a nice get by the boys in baseball ops. Your last sentence of “The Time Is Now” is taken from the Obama campaign, no?
Hapi -- thanks for being a loyal reader. If Obama is about making a positive change, I'm in. Sorta like the Sox living in the moment and not the past. Didn't know Hapi for into politics.
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