It was a bright, sunny day at Fenway Park, home of the Red Sox, in Boston. Entering the park for this could-be historic game, the smell of freshly cut grass mingles in the air with the scent of “Fenway franks”, the parks signature foot-long hot dogs. The game pits the Boston ace, Pedro Martinez, against the one-time red Sox star, now New York Yankee star, Roger Clemens. The Red Sox fans boo as Roger begins to toss his warm-up pitches off to the side. He is getting older, but his fastball still has enough zip behind it to make a SNAP as it hits the catcher’s glove.
Meanwhile, the Boston infield is taking ground balls, and the outfielders is shagging flies on the outfield grass, and left fielder Darren Lewis is practicing fielding fly-balls off of the Green Monster, the tall left field wall, with the manually operated scoreboard in it. Pedro emerges from the dugout to thunderous applause from the Red Sox fans, a smattering of boos from the Yankee faithful that have made the trip from the big apple, and the familiar guitar from AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” blaring from the PA system. Just before Pedro’s last warm-up, the catcher yells “throw in’ it down!” to signify that this is the last warm-up pitch. Pedro winds up, and hurls the ball, right into the catchers waiting glove. The catcher then fires the ball to the 3 rd baseman, who in turn twirls and tosses it to the 2 nd baseman. He tosses it the 1 st baseman, Brian Daubauch, who heaves it over to the shortstop, no mar, who then walks it back to the pitching mound.
The Essay on Red Ball Alexandra War German
At the age of about nine, in the year 1939, Alexandra Grochowska (my grandmother) experienced the terrors of World War 2. She lived in a town called Lodz with her parents and two sisters, one, two years older and one, two years younger. On the 1 st of September (the day that war broke out) it was warm and sunny Alexandra and her sisters, knowing the war was coming, went for a swim in the nearby ...
The Yankees are up to bat first. The top half of the inning goes quickly, with Pedro striking out the last man in the inning. As Clemens takes the mound for his half of the inning, the Boston faithful boo him momentarily, until the first pitch he throws to the lead off man is called a strike. The first batter pops up to the 2 nd baseman. Shockingly, the next batter hits a high, towering line drive shot that just hits the top of the Green Monster.
The Yankee left fielder plays the ball so well, that the batter only gets a single. Clemens looks a little rattled, but on the very next pitch throws a pitch that is hit right to the left of the first baseman, who makes a lucky stab at the ball and then touches the base for a double play. Play continues like this, with both pitchers having great control of their pitches until the bottom of the 7 th inning. The Boston 1 st baseman, Brian Daubauch, lumbers to the plate.
He takes a warm up swing, and then steps into the box. The first pitch is a fastball, which Brian takes a mighty cut at, but is a bit out in front of and hits it out into foul territory. Then Roger makes his only mistake of the game, throwing a hanging curve ball that Daubauch crushes over the net, over the top of the Citgo sign on top of the Monster. Pedro keeps the Yankee bats in check, scattering 5 hits in his 7 innings of work. Derrick Lowe comes in to pitch the 8 th inning, and throws one perfect inning of relief, not allowing a Yankee runner to reach base. The Red Sox know this is a big game, because these two teams might meet in the ALCS, to decide who goes to the World Series..
