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Post by ramireja on Oct 29, 2018 18:10:18 GMT -5
Go ahead, reminisce on an incredible year and lets see if we can rehash some of the best moments. I'll start with an obvious one:
- Mookie's GS in the 13-pitch at bat against J.A. Happ. "It's time to party" - Eck
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Post by iakovos11 on Oct 29, 2018 19:03:23 GMT -5
Go ahead, reminisce on an incredible year and lets see if we can rehash some of the best moments. I'll start with an obvious one: - Mookie's GS in the 13-pitch at bat against J.A. Happ. "It's time to party" - Eck That's the first thing that come to my mind. Not only for the moment itself, but also be cause we were at Disney with my wife's sister & family visiting from Cyprus. I was waiting for in line for Big Thunder Mountain and following on Gameday on my phone hoping I wouldn't run out of battery.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2018 20:10:36 GMT -5
Sox 4-game sweep of the Yankees in August. That was an incredible series.
Game 1 the Sox trailed early, then exploded for 8 runs in the 4th and ultimately won 15-7. Pearce hit three home runs in that game.
Game 2 was Porcello’s complete game 1-hitter.
Eovaldi followed in Game 3 with 8 shutout innings.
Game 4 was especially satisfying. The Sox trailed 4-1 in the bottom of the 9th, scored three off of Chapman to tie it, then one more off of Jonathan Holder in the 10th to win the game. The Red Sox went from 5.5 games up to 9.5 up in the span of four days and all but had the AL East race wrapped up in early August.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Oct 29, 2018 20:56:46 GMT -5
I got a crap memory in general, but Xander had a few grand slams I sort of remember that were big at the time, I think.
Porcello pitched 2 gems against the Yankees I remember a little more clearly. I remember Eovaldi's game against them too.
I remember Sale hitting 100 mph in the middle of the year as a starter, which was eye popping to me.
I remember a lot of grand slams this year in general. A bunch of guys had them. Can't remember one singular moment though. I listened to the Mookie grand slam game against Happ.
The season was practically over after that 4 game sweep of New York, which was epic. I'll remember the playoffs the most. That game where the Sox scored like 16 runs in Game 3 of the ALDS against the Yankees was my favorite game. I love humiliating New York and wiping their noses in it.
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Post by imnothipp on Oct 29, 2018 21:16:00 GMT -5
The comback against Atlanta had me giggling. After the Red Sox beat NY in the playoffs, a reporter asked Porcello, if clinching twice in NY had any added significance and Porcello yelling his response "WHAT DO YOU THINK?" Sale's entrance into the game last night was as cool as anything I have seen in a baseball game. Brasier telling Sanchez to get in the "F...ing box"
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Post by Addam603 on Oct 29, 2018 21:54:48 GMT -5
To me it’s a no-brainer for the Mookie grand slam. The amount of energy in that play was ridiculous.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 29, 2018 22:37:09 GMT -5
How in the world do you pick just one favorite moment in a season full of them?
I supposed you can go with any and every moment that thoroughly humiliated the Yankees, so you're talking the 4 game sweep which featured the Sox running at will against NY in Game 1 which also had Steve Pearce's 3 HR game and the Sox scoring 8 runs in the 4th inning. There were the Porcello and Eovaldi 4-1 masterpieces that followed and then the dagger comeback when they scored 3 with 2 outs to tie the score and then Benni sent them hold totally demoralized. Even YES network referred to it as The Boston Massacre which is kind of a sacred term for them.
Or was it simply more fun to bash them 16-1 in ALDS Game 3? Or how about Mookie's HR in the division clincher and subsequent Bronx champagne party #1 or how about a moment I couldn't bear to watch - Kimbrel's escape in ALDS Game 4 when Sanchez's long fly falls short and then Nunez makes that strong throw that Pearce stretches out to get and all the Yankees fans expecting the Red Sox to lose have to go home? Meanwhile the Sox players sing "New York, New York", which apparently they brought back after they won the World Series.
And those are just Yankee moments. It ignores the amazing Brandon Phillips moment which was amazing. Or the 11 run outburst against the Marlins or the 6 run bottom of the 8th comeback against Tampa early in the season, or Mookie's 13 pitch grand slam.
In another big Kimbrel misadventure the catch Benni made to in essence save the ALCS. Couldn't stomach watching that one but the catch he made was unreal.
Too many damn awesome moments to choose from, so I'll go with the last for best and that's loathsome Manny Machado helplessly flailing at a nasty Chris Sale slider for the final pitch of the season that crowned the Red Sox World Champions. I'll go with THAT as my favorite moment of 2018 and it followed that walk where Sale looks like a cold blooded executioner coming in to flip the switch on the Dodgers - and they knew it.
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Post by soxfansince67 on Oct 29, 2018 23:05:25 GMT -5
I've watched or listened to practically every game and have a good memory but can't do this... at least yet. The season was simply pure joy. I will enjoy reading this thread for the various reminders from you all. 😃
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 30, 2018 4:31:22 GMT -5
Go ahead, reminisce on an incredible year and lets see if we can rehash some of the best moments. I'll start with an obvious one: - Mookie's GS in the 13-pitch at bat against J.A. Happ. "It's time to party" - Eck That's the first thing that come to my mind. Not only for the moment itself, but also be cause we were at Disney with my wife's sister & family visiting from Cyprus. I was waiting for in line for Big Thunder Mountain and following on Gameday on my phone hoping I wouldn't run out of battery. That AB came to mind as soon as I saw the thread title.
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Post by mobaz on Oct 30, 2018 7:46:31 GMT -5
Chris Sale's dominance, March through July, and then on Sunday.
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 30, 2018 8:04:22 GMT -5
Do not forget that Bernie Carbo was the only player in baseball history to hit a PH 3 run HR until both Nunez and Moreland did it in games 1 and 4.
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Post by h11233 on Oct 30, 2018 9:10:15 GMT -5
I think it would be all the comebacks. So many games I would've written off as an L with any other team, but these guys never seemed to be out of it.
Also, I wouldn't necessarily consider it a "favorite" moment, but I'll never forget the first game of the season. Blowing that lead on day 1 was pretty gut wrenching, because I felt "well it's gonna be one of those seasons," but then they immediately went on a tear and never looked back. I've thought about that game a million times this season, and I always laugh a little
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2018 9:22:07 GMT -5
How about the Red Sox hitting six grand slams...in April! This after not hitting a single grand slam in all of 2017. That’s when I started to get the feeling that maybe this team was going to be pretty special. I wasn’t thinking World Series at that point, but I was feeling pretty good about being able to go toe-to-toe with the Yankees.
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Post by fenwaydouble on Oct 30, 2018 9:27:42 GMT -5
Two of my favorite parts of this season actually came in losses. The first was Mookie's cycle - watching everybody celebrate in the middle of a random loss in August showed just how much fun everybody was having and how special this team was. The second was Eovaldi mowing down the Dodgers in Game 3 for as long as humanly possible before eventually giving up the seemingly inevitable home run. The poetry of baseball is really found more in the failures than the successes, and (now that we've won) it's nice that even that even the low points of the season were sort of beautiful.
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Post by libertine on Oct 30, 2018 9:32:35 GMT -5
After watching them come together as a group and dance in the OF after so many Red Sox wins watching Mookie, JBJ and Benintendi come together as a group in the OF and then run towards the celebratory pile after the final out in game 5 was my best moment...
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Post by radiohix on Oct 30, 2018 12:08:11 GMT -5
My thoughts are all over the place these days lmao and there's so many moments that I'll sherish for a long long time and one of these memories is that clip for the cheer savagery of it!
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Post by chrisfromnc on Oct 30, 2018 13:20:32 GMT -5
I agree with RedSoxChamps that it's too tough to pick just one moment. One that has not yet been mentioned, but is easily top five for me...
Joe Kelly standing on the mound and inviting New York Yankee Tyler Austin to come out and fight him after he plunked him. The look on his face as he said, "Come on, lets go" was priceless. I will not forget that moment.
edit. following JimEd's lead, I just updated my Avatar. Last year I had a "win, dance, repeat" avatar. This year I changed it to Pomeranz when I made a bet with myself that he wouldn't reach the third inning of a game. I'm pretty happy with this avatar considering how great that moment was in a season filled with spectacular moments.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 30, 2018 18:40:22 GMT -5
I just can't pin down one moment, but all these qualify. I don't really remember things with that kind of clarity. I just know this it was all so worth it.
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Post by iakovos11 on Oct 30, 2018 21:12:23 GMT -5
How about this duo -
Nunie's defensive gem to end the Yankees series Devers gem to save game 5 against the Dodgers
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 31, 2018 4:35:36 GMT -5
One that's a good to see ring for a good career player who never won one, Brandon Philips and his HR after waiting out the entire season at Pawtucket to get called up.
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Post by nomar on Oct 31, 2018 8:24:33 GMT -5
I couldn't have been the only one who watched Steve Pearce hit that third HR against the Yankees and thought "this guy is going to come up huge for us when it counts". Pearce had that vibe the whole second half for me.
As a follower of all our prospects I sometimes overreact when one is traded, even when they aren't the brightest star out there. This year has taught me once and for all to stop complaining about trades like that, because Pearce and Eovaldi are two players that I will love for the rest of my life, even if they only spend a half year in Boston. And even though the Kinsler one didn't work out as smoothly, overall the juice was worth the squeeze at the trade deadline.
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Post by libermaniac on Oct 31, 2018 11:28:40 GMT -5
Joe Kelly vs. Tyler Austin.
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Post by ramireja on Oct 31, 2018 11:35:57 GMT -5
One that's a good to see ring for a good career player who never won one, Brandon Philips and his HR after waiting out the entire season at Pawtucket to get called up. Yeah its crazy to me (and will be increasingly weirder in a few years), than Brandon Phillips of all people will have one of the most memorable non-postseason Red Sox moments of 2018.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 31, 2018 23:26:54 GMT -5
Not a "single" moment but the slew of grand slams to start the year had us thinking grannie every time the Sox loaded the bases and how well Johnson and Velazquez stepped up to cover the rotation had us thinking this will be a special rotation when everyone is healthy. Both of those had special year written all over them.
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Post by James Dunne on Nov 1, 2018 9:13:44 GMT -5
One that's a good to see ring for a good career player who never won one, Brandon Philips and his HR after waiting out the entire season at Pawtucket to get called up. Yeah its crazy to me (and will be increasingly weirder in a few years), than Brandon Phillips of all people will have one of the most memorable non-postseason Red Sox moments of 2018. I was hoping he'd stay with the team in the playoffs and show up as this year's version of Ricky Gutierrez, who was in every single photo of the 2004 celebration.
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