I can't decide what I liked most about this past weekend. The incredible weather, starting my new fiction writing class, or watching the Red Sox sweep three games from the New York Yankees. Hmmm. Let me see. I think I'm going to go with the sweep for $300, Alex.
Sweeps are nice, clean fun when they go your way. Completely demoralizing when they don't. In the Yankees' case, it couldn't have been fun to take a 6-2 lead into the 8th inning of the first game on Friday night and then have your Hall of Fame closer, Mariano Rivera, blow yet another save at Fenway Park. They've got his number, as Dad likes to say. This is why he got an appropriate standing ovation from the Fenway Faithful when he walked into the bullpen on Saturday. (He returned a good natured smile to the Sox fans. The man is a class act.)
And tonight we had not one, not two, not three, but FOUR back to back to back to back home runs by Messrs. Ramirez, Drew, Lowell, and Varitek. I have never seen that before.
Of course, it's only April. And the Red Sox faced two rookie pitchers and a pretty banged up Yankee lineup. But Jeter, A-Rod (who is playing like a man possessed right now), Giambi, Damon, and Cano were all present, so I'd better not hear too much whining from my Yankee friends at work tomorrow. Whether you win them in April or September, these games count.
Rematch at the Stadium next weekend. Be there or be square.
2 comments:
Not a huge baseball fan and, as a middle child, I've always been partial to the Mets anyway, but isn't four back to back to back to back home runs a total of sixteen home runs? Amazing feat nonetheless. Congrats!
the only thing i like as much as the Tigers winning is watching the Yankees lose. :-) I can suspend my dislike for redsox on weekends like this.
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