What a game… 22 innings long. This thing started at 10:05 EDT, and ended at 4:21 EDT, 6 hours and 16 minutes long. The final score: Colorado 2, San Diego 1. No team scored a run until the 14th inning. These two teams have come up with some ridiculous games of late, and I can’t wait until they face each other again, later this season.
Meanwhile, the Red Sox split a pair in New York with the Yankees this week, and swept Cleveland in a two-game series at Cleveland. Now, it’s home to face Texas in a four-game, Patriot’s Day-weekend series. It looks to me like David Ortiz is starting to get his swing back, which is a very good sign. He went 3-for-10 against the Tribe, and looked like himself against the Yankees in New York. As for Manny, he looks like he’s being Manny. 495 HR for the guy, 5 short of 500 for the career, which I think he’ll attain somewhere around May 3rd, at home, vs. Tampa Bay. And as for my personal favorite on the team, the Greek God of Walks, well, he’s swinging that bat quite nicely, and substituting quite nicely at 3rd base for the injured Mike Lowell. Through 17 games, Youk’s stat line: .371 BA / 1 HR / 11 RBI / 14 R / 9 XBH / 0.777 BB-SO.
Meanwhile, it’s seven weeks until I, myself, head to Boston, and I’m looking for Red Sox tickets. I can’t find them at the Red Sox site (not even standing room) so I’m going to have to go the StubHub route to by some Mariners tickets that first weekend. Beyond that, I might be standing outside of Fenway a few hours before game time…
–jl–
