Its a Whole New Ballgame in Good Seats
Last night I was lucky enough to score a field box seat to the Red Sox. If you are wondering how I managed this, well, it wasn’t hard. I called the box office the day they went on sale and bought it (A single seat, but who cares when you’re in the 5th row).
This was the first pitch of the night. Click through to see the full photo album.
And quite the game it was. Watching Tim Wakefield pitch from up close is amazing. You can really see his knuckleball move around and to be honest, I don’t know how any human being is able to hit that thing when its moving the right way. Of course, he walked 5 guys in 5 innings last night, so I guess it was moving the wrong way as much as the right. I think the highlight was striking out Carlos Guillen with a 55 MPH curve ball to end the 5th.
Scratch that, the highlight was the bomb that Manny hit. It wasn’t quite a home run, but it did the trick. Somehow, I could just tell he was going to hit it hard. Manny isn’t a very excitable guy, but during that at-bat, you could see he was really working the pitcher and was incredibly focused.
Overall it was a great night in the park. You don’t often get to see the Sox score 12 runs and see Okajima and Papelbon pitch as well. Now bring on the Yankees!
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