Last night was a night that I will never forget. Did it physically kill me? In the end, yes as I am still exhausted and my back is in shambles but in the grand scheme of things, it was well worth it.
After numerous stops on the way to Riverside Station just off the Mass Pike and 95, I ran into someone who had been up at Fenway but wasn’t fortunate to have tickets. He had all sorts of stuff that they were giving away on the street plus the official World Series program. A $15 expenditure which I made on the way back after the game. I then made way to the T where I had to inquire when the last T was going to run. The person there said that the last T was at 12 midnight but would run for an hour after the Red Sox game.
After getting off the T, it is a short walk to the Fenway Park area. As you started to get close to the ballpark, you could just feel the excitement. As soon as you got to Yawkey Way, the sounds of a normal Red Sox game were there, “Programs here, Get your scorecard, fresh hot sausages, etc”. While waiting for Texy to arrive, I made a walk around the ballpark.
My first destination was to head down the player’s parking lot where a large crowd had already gathered. You could feel something was special in the Fenway Park air. As I walked down Yawkey Way, which was not closed off at this point, those familiar sounds echoed as long as a lot of familiar faces from the national media. As I was walking, I almost bumped into Jim Caple from ESPN and his camera man. He’s definitely as short as he has looked in any of the video pieces he’s done for ESPN. Just before the player’s parking entrance was the media gate, where all the media was entering. At this point, I didn’t see too many I recognized but instead just took in the whole atmosphere. I made a way a little further down to the player’s lot where I saw J.D. Drew drive his green Hummer into the parking lot. As soon as he went in, I decided I needed to check out the rest of the happenings.
As good as Beckett was the Red Sox lineup was just as good as 8 of the 9 starters had at least one hit, one run scored and one RBI on their way to tying a World Series record for extra base hits with 8 doubles and a home run. They were led by David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez and Julio Lugo who each had 3 hits and 2 RBI apiece from Ortiz, Ramirez, Dustin Pedroia, Jason Varitek and JD Drew.
Pedroia, the AL Rookie of the Year candidate, hit a lead off home run just into the Monster Seats in left field off of Colorado lefty Jeff Francis. It was Pedroia’s 2nd HR of the post season and he became the first rookie to lead off a World Series game with a HR. Kevin Youkilis followed it up with a ringing double to right center, Ortiz grounded out to Todd Helton at first to move Youkilis to third. On the first pitch Ramirez, the 2004 World Series MVP, ripped a single to left over a drawn in infield and it was 2-0 Boston. Mike Lowell flew out to center, Varitek singled to left to move Ramirez to second and then Drew drilled a double into the right field corner to plate Ramirez and it was 3-0. Lugo then grounded out third on a bang-bang play at first to end the inning.
candidate Troy Tulowitzki doubled to left center to score Atkins and cut the lead to 3-1 but Beckett came back to get Yorvit Torrealba to ground out to Lugo.
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