I remember that like it was
yesterday.
Thanks for a great story by the
Can I wash it like 10 or 15
times in a row?
My hands are literally sweating
right now.
Throw me that breaking ball and
yeah, when I see you got him, I
told you he was gonna throw me
the hospital and there was no
one left in the bullpen.
It was either me or a fan here
comes back to cutter, back to
cutter, cut her up, not just cut
her in every pitcher knows who's
taking them deep.
You can throw me whatever you
want at this moment, right?
I was gonna hate it.
Look, look, look at Arroyo.
He's laughing at you guys
because you got the call wrong.
Oh, I remember what happened the
year before, right?
It doesn't get any better than
that.
Yeah.
Oh, I think, I think we're game
one here.
When you're ready, you're gonna
hit play and you're gonna show
how you've set the tone for this
game to left by mai back, back,
back back.
Good.
Can I watch it like 10 or 15
times in a row?
Because that was a beautiful
change up by Mr Washburn.
You know, it's funny.
I love me some Jared Washburn
because I always loved how he
competed and threw in to
righties.
Lefty throwing in her eyes, I
always thought was impressive
because most times away right
there, he threw a 10, changeup,
I believe was the count.
And I was looking, hit her and
just was able to get that barrel
on that ball and it kind of
snuck out, you know, probably
three or four rows back.
But I'll tell you right now that
brings back a lot of great
memories.
One, the handshake with Poppy,
which is boom, boom, boom, boom
, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
boom bam.
And we'll still do that to this
day.
But that's uh that's cool.
Manny Ramirez, two runners in
scoring position.
Drives this to center back was
Garrett Anderson back.
He goes back back back.
I remember that time I knew he
was gonna try to come in and I
was waiting for that pitch, but
we were rolling.
We were playing so good.
Everybody was all hyped up and I
was looking for that pitch in
that zone and he gave it to me
and I, and I went deep.
One of the great big game
pitchers certainly of this year.
That would be Curt Schilling
Schilling who fires that away
from matt Kviz and still
churning is Anderson and Garrett
will make it into third looked
like he had that play under
control.
My initial reaction was his
reaction.
And I don't think I went after
the ball.
I really don't remember.
I remember he reaching down and
grabbing his ankle.
And I thought, oh, first
disappointment in myself because
I got to the bag late.
I assumed that I did the
cardinal sin of assuming that
the throw would be where it
normally is.
But when I minute I saw she
reach down and grab his ankle.
I thought, oh boy, you always
have your fingers crossed.
That when you get to October,
everybody's feeling good.
Everybody's right.
And we is gonna roll through
this thing and Then you see that
happened and you're like, oh no
, like hopefully that was just
like he just rolled his ankle.
It's no big deal.
We all found out in the next 24
hours that it was a little bit
bigger than just your basic
rolled.
Ankle.
Guerrero takes the collar on
this day and mike Timlin and
Jason Varitek shake hands is
all.
Boston first one, game two A L
DS.
When you're ready, you can hit,
you can hit play.
Uh, you know, Bartolo was tough
the first few innings, you know
, 1st, 1st time through, you
know, when he had command of his
, his fastball, he could really
overpower.
So, Vertec swing basically a
tree of a bat.
It's like 35 inches, 34 ounces.
It's a monster.
And when he toe taps and gets
that thing on time, he was so
strong by Vitek, get tied up.
Jason Varitek has the greatest
home run sprint out there with
guys with Quad Zillas.
How do you know that he's
already sli around the bases
like the ball wasn't playing
honestly looking for something
that I could drive or to, to be