Ah, the start of baseball season. I didn't stay up until 3 am to watch the Red Sox play the A's in Tokyo online. I waited until I got up and checked the website. I was not disappointed, 6-5 Sox in a 10 inning contest.
It was a wild game, including started Dice K giving up 2 runs, 2 hits, 5 walks, 5 strikeouts, lasting 5 innings. Okajima came in and got the win, the first Japanese pitcher to win a major league game played in Japan. How long will THAT one stand?
But the big news was the M&M effort. M for Manny, and Moss. Who the heck is Moss? Brandon Moss, a 24 year old from Georgia who filled in for JD Drew, out with a back twinge. Lucky for Moss. He hit his first Major League homer, the fifth player in history to hit his first in a game outside the US or Canada and the tenth Sox player to hit his first homer with Boston in a season opener. His homer tied the game in the 9th inning. Way to make an impression, kid. Manny, meanwhile, drove in 4 of the 6 runs, including the game winner in the 10th with 2 out.
So to the Oregonian sports guys who today predicted the Yankees will take the division this year, and that the Red Sox will struggle at the beginning of the season because of their awful travel schedule (including Japan), I'm a bit more optimistic. My bee-ah is half full. Go Sox!
Originally from the home of the Red Sox Nation, Fenway Fran is now living in the Pacific Northwest. She loves Baseball, America, Mom and Blackberry Pie.
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Wew-who!!!! Way to go Sox!!! Struggle, you jest! Manny way to go.It's me Jill, under the cover of "bean", as in Jilly bean, goes way back. Miss you girl! I'll be at the game at Fenway on April 22nd! Going East for mother in laws 90th. Everyone's flying in.Lata!!
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