Friday, June 30, 2006

Hundreds of years from now, after a nuclear conflagration, or a worldwide pandemic, or global-warming-induced environmental catastrophe has wiped out most of mankind, humanity’s survivors can venture to NESN’s Watertown headquarters and dig out a DVD labeled boston red sox vs. new york mets, june 29, 2006.

That film will teach them how baseball is played.

Last night’s game, in addition to being our twelfth win in a row, our fourth straight series sweep, our 15th straight errorless game, and a game that put us a season-high four games above the Yankees, was a textbook case of perfectly-executed baseball fundamentals.

“An instructional video,” the pitcher called it.

There was the easy out in the first when Jose Reyes was caught stealing after Schilling had done his damnedest to keep him close to the bag at first.

Schilling did it himself in the fifth, picking of Julio Franco at second.

We had Alex Gonzalez beating out a bunt-hit, then reaching second on the throwing error of a rattled pitcher.

When the Mets went up 2-0 on Beltran’s homer, Mark Loretta came right back out for the sixth and immediately cut the lead in half with a homer over the Monster.

After Ortiz doubled, Mike Lowell lofted a fly ball to center, and Big Papi busted ass to get to third.

Then Varitek scored him with a sac fly to tie it.

Schilling held the line for the seventh, and then it was time to get back to work.

Speedy Coco Crisp reached on another bunt.

Then he stole second.

Then Gonzo moved him to third.

Then Youkilis, calm, cool, and collected, hit another sac fly out to left, and we had a lead.

Then, with Mike Timlin pitching, with two outs, and a man on first, with one of the best hitters in the NL at the dish, came The Catch.

If you happen see a more jaw-dropping play in a baseball outfield in the next two decades, please let me know. On eagles’ wings, he was.

Ortiz led off the next inning with the coup de grâce, homering to deep center on the third pitch.

It was the 200th of his career.

And that was that. Jonathan Papelbon submitted another perfect inning, and notched his 24th save (tying Dick Radatz’s rookie record before we’ve even reached the All-Star Break). It had been a fine pitchers duel for the first half of the game, but in the end, ours was better than theirs.

Seven innings, seven hits, six strikeouts, two runs. Curt Schilling is a good pitcher.

So is Timlin. So is Papelbon.

And our lineup is full of good hitters. And our infield is jaw-dropping. And our outfield defense can be pretty nifty when it wants to be too.

Beating NL teams with NL small ball. I love it.

We’ve got one more National League team to sweep this season. Let’s do it.

6/30/2006 11:12:27 AM by Mike Miliard | Comments [0] |  
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