Post by redsox04071318champs on Jan 1, 2019 10:07:05 GMT -5
Chris Sale striking out Manny Machado certainly is the most memorable moment for me.
But there were just so many, many others.
There's Beni's catch. There's Pearce's stretch. Pounding the Yankees 16-1 in ALDS Game 3.
There were the PH HRs by Nunez and Moreland.
The way they tortured the Yankees in 2018 is something I'll never forget. The series during the season was 10-9 Red Sox, but nobody will remember that. They'll remember the 4 games of torture the Yankees endured.
From when they had a 4-0 lead in that first August game and then the Sox dropped an 8 spot on them to take a 10-4 lead, an inning which features Pearce power but also aggressive in your face baserunning by JBJ to score a run, Benintendi stealing Holder blind, and then Kinsler rubbing it in with a stolen base, all leading to Pearce's 3-HR game and the 15-7 blowout victory. Then the next day, Porcello 1-hits the Yankees throwing only 86 pitches to go the distance, and then the next day, Eovaldi silencing NY and then Kimbrel giving us a heart attack by loading the bases with two outs before retiring Bird on a flyout to JBJ (a preview of the ALDS to come) to the piece de resistance, the cruel 5-4, 10 inning walk off victory where the Sox are trailing 4-1 with 2 outs in the 9th and tie the score on a JDM hit and a bad throw/scoop by Andujar and Voit and then win on a hit by Beni.
I loved reading about that series and hearing about it - especially the New York point of view. Some there called it the new Boston Massacre. While that was fun to hear, I think the Fenway Fiasco would be more fitting. The Red Sox only crushed them in 1 of the games which they actually had trailed by 4-0. No, unlike its 1978 counterpart where the Yankees crushed the Sox all 4 games, this one was different because the Sox put the Yankees through an agonizing 4 game sweep, a series the Yankees could have won 3 of 4.
There were other big explosion games, like the 11 run inning against the Marlins, and the two out 6 run 8th inning revenge comeback against the Rays who had done the same thing to the Sox earlier during opening day. The best thing was that was a preview to Game 4 of the World Series where the Sox had another big offensive eruption after being dormant - and that one buried the Dodgers for the game and the Series as it turned out.
That kind of eruption is what the Red Sox did best in 2018. Especially after that hideous loss in Game 3. That loss should have finished them. It would finish most teams, who I don't think mentally would recover from that.
When the Red Sox, after looking dead, and making it pretty obvious that the series would be heading back to Boston with possibly the demoralized Sox down 3 games to 2, sprung to life - with huge help from the miscommunication between Roberts and Hill, the Dodgers' lousy bullpen, their foolish refusal to use Urias when the Sox had nothing but lefty hitters on the bench, and their equally foolish refusal to use Baez, plus maybe some energy from Chris Sale's dugout tirade - stormed back, overwhelmed the Dodgers and flipped the tables on them.
It was after Game 4, when the Dodgers had let the opportunity slip, that I knew the Sox were indeed going to win the World Series. The Dodgers were demoralized and they weren't coming back from that. They weren't special like the Red Sox were, who apparently turned an 18 inning loss into a rallying cry - only Alex Cora could do that - another reason he's an awesome manager.
And sure enough the Dodgers were a deflated team in Game 5. They played like Dead Team Walking. They were already beaten by that point.
That was one of my favorite things that the Sox did. They deflated and demoralized other teams in 2018.
And as the ball dropped last night and Frank Sinatra's New York, New York blared, all I could think was - hey in 2018 the Sox made it their celebration song!!
The Sox trolling back at the Yankees (where they partied twice in 2018!!!) was one of my favorite moments and them doing it again after winning the World Series was funny, too! You don't troll the 2018 Red Sox or else they shoved it up your butt - another endearing quality of the 2018 Red Sox.
Gee, maybe NESN should put out some commemorative DVDs about the 2018 team in case some of their fan base actually cares - yeah I'm beating that drum again!! I will soon complain to NESN again and try to get a response!
But there were just so many, many others.
There's Beni's catch. There's Pearce's stretch. Pounding the Yankees 16-1 in ALDS Game 3.
There were the PH HRs by Nunez and Moreland.
The way they tortured the Yankees in 2018 is something I'll never forget. The series during the season was 10-9 Red Sox, but nobody will remember that. They'll remember the 4 games of torture the Yankees endured.
From when they had a 4-0 lead in that first August game and then the Sox dropped an 8 spot on them to take a 10-4 lead, an inning which features Pearce power but also aggressive in your face baserunning by JBJ to score a run, Benintendi stealing Holder blind, and then Kinsler rubbing it in with a stolen base, all leading to Pearce's 3-HR game and the 15-7 blowout victory. Then the next day, Porcello 1-hits the Yankees throwing only 86 pitches to go the distance, and then the next day, Eovaldi silencing NY and then Kimbrel giving us a heart attack by loading the bases with two outs before retiring Bird on a flyout to JBJ (a preview of the ALDS to come) to the piece de resistance, the cruel 5-4, 10 inning walk off victory where the Sox are trailing 4-1 with 2 outs in the 9th and tie the score on a JDM hit and a bad throw/scoop by Andujar and Voit and then win on a hit by Beni.
I loved reading about that series and hearing about it - especially the New York point of view. Some there called it the new Boston Massacre. While that was fun to hear, I think the Fenway Fiasco would be more fitting. The Red Sox only crushed them in 1 of the games which they actually had trailed by 4-0. No, unlike its 1978 counterpart where the Yankees crushed the Sox all 4 games, this one was different because the Sox put the Yankees through an agonizing 4 game sweep, a series the Yankees could have won 3 of 4.
There were other big explosion games, like the 11 run inning against the Marlins, and the two out 6 run 8th inning revenge comeback against the Rays who had done the same thing to the Sox earlier during opening day. The best thing was that was a preview to Game 4 of the World Series where the Sox had another big offensive eruption after being dormant - and that one buried the Dodgers for the game and the Series as it turned out.
That kind of eruption is what the Red Sox did best in 2018. Especially after that hideous loss in Game 3. That loss should have finished them. It would finish most teams, who I don't think mentally would recover from that.
When the Red Sox, after looking dead, and making it pretty obvious that the series would be heading back to Boston with possibly the demoralized Sox down 3 games to 2, sprung to life - with huge help from the miscommunication between Roberts and Hill, the Dodgers' lousy bullpen, their foolish refusal to use Urias when the Sox had nothing but lefty hitters on the bench, and their equally foolish refusal to use Baez, plus maybe some energy from Chris Sale's dugout tirade - stormed back, overwhelmed the Dodgers and flipped the tables on them.
It was after Game 4, when the Dodgers had let the opportunity slip, that I knew the Sox were indeed going to win the World Series. The Dodgers were demoralized and they weren't coming back from that. They weren't special like the Red Sox were, who apparently turned an 18 inning loss into a rallying cry - only Alex Cora could do that - another reason he's an awesome manager.
And sure enough the Dodgers were a deflated team in Game 5. They played like Dead Team Walking. They were already beaten by that point.
That was one of my favorite things that the Sox did. They deflated and demoralized other teams in 2018.
And as the ball dropped last night and Frank Sinatra's New York, New York blared, all I could think was - hey in 2018 the Sox made it their celebration song!!
The Sox trolling back at the Yankees (where they partied twice in 2018!!!) was one of my favorite moments and them doing it again after winning the World Series was funny, too! You don't troll the 2018 Red Sox or else they shoved it up your butt - another endearing quality of the 2018 Red Sox.
Gee, maybe NESN should put out some commemorative DVDs about the 2018 team in case some of their fan base actually cares - yeah I'm beating that drum again!! I will soon complain to NESN again and try to get a response!