Can you believe it? Yes!

September 09, 2018  •  Leave a Comment

The Red Sox designated hitter, most of the time, is a bona fide slugger and MVP candidate named J.D. Martinez. He's been amazingly productive all year, and one of the best off-season acquisitions the Sox brass have ever made. When we finally got to Fenway for an evening game, one of the attractions was to see JD at work, and with two on and the Sox up by just a single run in the fifth, he didn't disappoint. I think he knew he got it all and must have felt the same delight Pam and I and the rest of the Boston partisans experienced as we watched the ball take flight over the Green Monster and land, 374 feet away from home, in the seats. It was the slugger's 40th dinger, and we got a great look at its exit from our vantage point in the left field grandstand. Alas, the bullpen couldn't hold the 5–1 lead over the Houston Astros that resulted from the blast, but we got to see something else special: a great hold by closer Craig Kimbrel in the 9th and a WALKOFF win as Sox first-baseman Mitch Moreland singled in Tzu-Wei Lin. Praise be... definitely praise be!

 


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