Archive for the ‘Games’ Category
We’re Home
Monday, April 11, 2016 – Fenway Park, Section 30 Orioles 9, Red Sox 7 Opening Day – the “real” one, at home – is my favorite day of the year. This year it reminded me of a scene in the lastest Star Wars movie: My favorite pictures from the day follow: Although the Red Sox […]
Posted in: 2016 Games, Opening Day
Play Ball
Monday, February 29, 2016 – JetBlue Park, Ft. Myers Game 1 – Red Sox 6, Boston College Eagles 0 On Monday the Red Sox started off the 2016 season with their first two officially unofficial games against Boston College and Northeastern University. We went early and walked around to the practice fields out back. Minor […]
Posted in: 2016 Games, 2016 Spring Training
There’s No Place Like Home
Monday, April 13, 2015 – Fenway Park, Section 32 Red Sox 9, Nationals 4 This year’s home opener was my fifteenth Fenway Park Opening Day. It’s always a welcome sight, but after a disappointing season last year and a record-setting snowfall all winter, plus the fact that we were already 13 days into April, I […]
Posted in: 2015 Games, Opening Day
Baseball Happened Today
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 – JetBlue Park, Ft. Myers Game 1: Red Sox 2, Northeastern University 1, 8 innings On Tuesday, it was finally time for “real” baseball! OK, so it was a doubleheader against two college teams that doesn’t even count in the exhibition standings which themselves don’t officially count, but it was baseball […]
Posted in: 2015 Games, 2015 Spring Training
X Gon’ Give It To Ya
Thursday, May 29, 2014 – Fenway Park, Section 32 Red Sox 4, Braves 3 After my last game a week ago, the Red Sox lost three more games to run their losing streak to ten, with the tenth being the ugliest of all. But then they moved on to Atlanta, where they won both games. […]
Unlucky 7
Thursday, May 22, 2014 – Fenway Park Sections 4, 3, 16, and Field Box 35 Blue Jays 7, Red Sox 2 The next day I was on my way back in to Fenway again. I always like going on back-to-back days (in fact this made three out of the last four games for me) because […]
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 – Fenway Park, Section 43 Blue Jays 6, Red Sox 4 The Red Sox had dropped their past five games, four of those coming at home sweet home. While I knew that the season was still young, I didn’t want them to get into a hole so big they couldn’t dig […]
Sunday Night Blues
Sunday, May 18, 2014 – Fenway Park, Section 36 Tigers 6, Red Sox 2 I spent Sunday afternoon at my friends’ house in Rhode Island, and then drove to Boston for the night game, joking as I did that I was taking the “Lou Merloni Memorial Highway” north from Pawtucket. I wasn’t early enough for […]
Surviving With Grady
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 – Fenway Park, Section 32 Red Sox 4, Reds 3, 12 innings The Sox had a day off on Monday, and then Tuesday I was on my way back in to Fenway for the first game of a two-game set against the Reds. This was my first game of the year […]
Gone With The Wind
Sunday, May 4, 2014 – Fenway Park, Section 43 A’s 3, Red Sox 2, 10 inn. The Red Sox were still stuck in their slow start, but none of the other teams in the A.L. East were running away with it either, and they came into Sunday’s game only 2 games back in the division. […]
