When I was writing for Let’s Go: New York, part of my duties was writing about Brooklyn (except the stuff along the L like Williamsburg, which another writer covered). So one day, since I was checking out the Brooklyn Children’s Museum I decided, what the hey, let’s look for what’s become of Ebbets Field. So there I was in the middle of Crown Heights during a summer drizzle, gazing at the depressing sight of the Ebbets Field Apartments. It was a desolate Sunday afternoon, not many people on the streets, but it was a special moment.
Okay, enough of reminiscing. Dodgers in town. There were probably a few Boston Braves-Brooklyn Robins/Superbas games back in the day, but Sox-Dodgers - at least this interleague matchup has some history. I wasn’t expecting Odalis Perez v. D-Lowe to be a pitchers’ duel - but I loved seeing it. D-Lowe, never great, 5H 4BB, always leaving us on the cusp of thinking it’ll all end in tears but deftly pulling himself out. At the end, I thought we might get to see Gagne v. Foulke (or even Mota v. Foulke), the Battle of the Changeup Artists, but LA stupidly brought in Martin.
And the Yankees lost, Mussina’s hurt, life is sweet.