America Is A Great Country
Back home from that farm-team doubleheader at Fenway yesterday. Single A Red Sox Lowell Spinners vs. Tampa Bay’s Hudson Valley Renegades and Double A Red Sox Portland SeaDogs vs. Washington Nationals’ Harrisburg Senators. Two hometown 9th inning back-from-behind walkoffs.
2-1 Lowell in a game that was a bit of a drought until the last two innings when Lowell tied it in the eighth and Jorge Jimenez had his moment in the sun at America’s greatest ballpark with a walkoff single in the bottom of the ninth.
Seadogs vs. Senators was a 12-11 slugfest bloodfest that started with a three-run homer over the Green Monster and ended with a two-run walkoff double … Both starters racked up more than 30 pitches in the first inning alone and it was tied 3-3 before the 2nd. But 11-year-old Ian’s favorite part? Just walking up into the grandstand and seeing that halllowed ground laid out before him. That and the Fenway frank. There’s nothing like coming up out of the Green Line into Kenmore Square, heading across the Pike, seeing that old pile of bricks and green steel girders and knowing you’re going in.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:18 am on Sunday, August 12, 2007
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August 12th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Bless you for passing along the important things to your son.