A multihomer game? Sitting on that fastball up and in, hitting it out of the park… who is this big-hitting man and what has he done with Pokey Reese?
And can I just say I love inside-the-park homers? There’s something I find quite thrilling about the sprint to beat the throw home. Those weird bounces of Fenway’s right field are really doing the Sox good. Schilling got the CG with a great performance. 120 pitches isn’t too bad for him, but the paranoid Sox fan (is that tautological?) in me worries about his insistence on keeping the ball…
On yesterday’s game: given Manny’s broken finger from sliding a few years back, I’d say Manny shouldn’t slide - sure, sometimes it’s nice to see hustle, but it’s so against Manny’s Zen-like peaceable state I feel can create bad situations..