Ortiz Hits a HR!!
by 0157H7 on May 21, 2009 12:10 AM EDT
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PrintThe wait is over. After more than 140 AB, David Ortiz hit his first regular season HR since late September of last year... With one swing of the bat, 1.5 months of agony and frustration were sent reeling out of the park.
In other, far less important news, a whole baseball game was played around this home run. A group of athletes from Canada, who must all be hockey players, managed to be baffled by Brad Penny's 94-mph fastballs in 2-0 counts.* Meanwhile, the hockey player named Brett Cecil was pretty good... until the Red Sox realized that he wasn't going to check them against the wall. Four home runs, a double and a triple followed.
Sox go for the sweep tonight. Jon Lester vs the lovable blind songster Ray.
*But, surprisingly, they weren't baffled by Bard's 98-mph heaters...
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hey im new to this site but im a huge red sox fan. this was a great game. it seemed the whole team was energized after ortiz hit his 1st homer
Welcome, lb33
Hope you stick around for the action all year long.
by Randy Booth on May 21, 2009 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions
I called it.
Someone asked the question of what series it would happen a couple days ago in a fanshot, and luckily I said this series. I think he will go yard again tomorrow. Perhaps, maybe.
Overall, I don’t see him going yard more than 30 this year.
I didn't like the old one very much. I didn't see the ball there very well. - Julio Lugo on the old Yankees Stadium.
What was the deal with Bard? He was spotting his pitches perfectly at 98 MPH, and getting the shit knocked out of him.
Everyone was going to the plate expecting fastball
That’s really his scouting report as of now. “Throws really fast fastball”
I didn't like the old one very much. I didn't see the ball there very well. - Julio Lugo on the old Yankees Stadium.
I know its football,
but it’s kinda like the Oakland Raiders scouting reports.
“Really Fast”, “Fast”, “sort of fast”, “not fast”, “Al davis is an idiot slow”
I love and hate that team with a passion. (sigh)
Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
by sox-inda-south on May 21, 2009 8:37 AM EDT up reply actions
Well yeah
But the same goes for Papelbon. Yet he manages to blow people away with 93-94 MPH right down the middle.
Which means he's not allowed to swing a bat in interleague.
But the similarities are striking.
"Are you a real doctor, or a doctor like Dr. Pepper is a doctor?"
And we're confiscating his passport.
Yes, I realize this means that he won’t be able to pitch well in Toronto.
It's too early to tell...
I am glad for Big Papi, this is an important mental hurdle for him. I hope that this is the beginning of a rampage of homers. I think it’s a little early to say “Papi is back”, but I think that if he can turn this into something productive, by the ASB, this slump will be discussed as “Wee-yid, hunh?”. It’s been interesting to me to see the rest of the team still winning as many games as they have without his bat, and with the injuries, lack of defense, et cetera. I’m sure that this slump has got Theo’s wheels turning a little faster, though.
by MonsterShadow327 on May 21, 2009 4:37 AM EDT reply actions
That game warmed my heart.
Great to see Cookie get the monkey off his back. I went to sleep when it was 8-2. Saw that he doubled too-how well hit was that one?
Like the HR
just not as deep or high.
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
Let me put it this way
If a decaying, shambling mass of flesh oozed up to the plate, and flailed away with its unholy strength, hitting a ball out of the field as if it were the last vestige of his humanity, and then shambled around the basepaths, with his unquenchable hunger intimidating all those around him…
If all that happened, is it REALLY as noteworthy as Ortiz’s homerun?
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
Erm. Hrm. When you put it that way it's hard to choose.
After all, that scenario played out TWICE.
I can deal with a .220 AVG and .310 OBP if ‘[3/4 Empty] hits 25 jacks. It’s like hitting the lotto 6% of the time when you’re expecting nothing.
"You know you're having a bad day when the fifth inning rolls around and they drag the warning track." - Mike Flanagan, Baltimore Orioles pitcher, 1992.
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