Programming note: Tonight’s game is on ESPN!
Today’s entertainment revolved around the whole Gardy vs Hicks confrontation from last night. The Twitterverse was apparently alive with comments about an incident that probably would have gone totally unnoticed outside of Minnesota and surrounding states if not for the fact that it occurred in Boston, where everything is magnified 100 times.
Hicks is back in the starting line up tonight and playing center field, so apparently his sins weren’t fatal.
Hopefully, the Twins will do something tonight that will make everyone forget about the other nonsense (and hopefully whatever that something is will be a good something).
| TWINS |
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RED SOX |
| Carroll, 2B | Ellsbury, CF | |
| Mauer, C | Victorino, RF | |
| Willingham, LF | Pedroia, 2B | |
| Morneau, 1B | Ortiz, D, DH | |
| Plouffe, 3B | Napoli, 1B | |
| Doumit, DH | Gomes, J, LF | |
| Arcia, RF | Saltalamacchia, C | |
| Hicks, CF | Drew, SS | |
| Florimon, SS | Ciriaco, 3B | |
| _Hernandez, P, P | _Webster, P |
| Minnesota | ||||||||||||
| Boston |
Seriously.
I have no words to describe this game accurately.
It was just ridiculous and I don’t care who was scoring along at home, I don’t think ANYONE has a matching sheet. In case you were wondering, here’s what the OFFICIAL MLB Play by Play has listed for the top of the 7th inning:
Despite more officiating miscues than I can count and a strike zone that traveled more than Santa Claus, the Twins were able to make significant use of the Fenway’s historic nature – and goofy field proportions! The whole team gets a beer – or two (or as many as they need to recover) courtesy of Knuckleballs. It was a lot of fun to watch the whole lineup get a hit tonight! And our sincerest congratulations to Ryan Pressley for getting the Win tonight – it was his first MLB Win and he worked hard for it tonight.
The official vote for BOD was a landslide – for the Green Monster.
But if you’re a stickler for having a person as your boyfriend of the day, second place went to Ryan Doumit – who has basically kicked ass this whole series. He kept it up tonight too so we’ll toss the alternative acknowledgement his way.
That being said, let’s hope this officiating crew gets their heads screwed back on before tomorrow’s series finale.