It was a pitchers' duel last night between the Sox and the Mariners. Dice K was really good but Seattle's Felix Hernandez was an entire class better. It was quite the thing to see screw ball action pitches in the top of an inning being followed by 99 mile an hour fastballs in the bottom. Hernandez's calm no-hitter was broken in the eighth. He's had only four hits against him this year and at 21 may be the real phenomenon of the next couple of decades.
Matt Campbell's photo above (European Pressphoto Agency) was in The New York Times this morning and continues the paper's dedication to great baseball photography. The interesting thing for me is how it captures how the green of Fenway acts as sympathetically to highlight the colour of the grass and the red dirt. A classic shot, given the location of the ball and Ichiro's foot.
Comments
gr - April 12, 2007 9:08 AM
Fenway is a nasty, messy old barn, and those four year old left field seats above the green monster are always a surprise. Boston fans love Fenway, but I have never been all that happy with it: remarkably dirty, obstructed views, and a large number of seats down the first base line requiring you crane your neck toward home all night. All of that would be fine, except the ticket prices could feed a small nation for a year. OK OK, nothing beats the excitement of walking into that neighborhood and park and all the happy fans and all the rest....BUT I am a Cubbies fan at heart, and Wrigley is also ancient BUT clean, well kept, most seats are good. The first Cubs game I went to was watched from the roof of an apartment building across the street, and they used to give out reserved tickets in exchange for 6 candy bar wrappers.
Yak yak yak, too much tasty coffee, carry on folks....
Nate - April 12, 2007 10:48 AM
Man, Felix was insane last night. I know he's amazingly talented, but you wonder how much of that he brought just to (a) shine on the big stage and (b) show up all of the hypesters who were pushing Daisuke do hard. You put Hernandez in NY or Boston and Santana doesn't have the Cy Young wrapped up by May 1st every year.
portland - April 13, 2007 3:16 PM
yummmmm.....monster seats.
but gr is right about a lot of the the seats. in an age where they can build a city on an island shaped like a palm tree why can't they pull it all down except for the grass, the bleachers, and one wall, and then reassemble it but better. i dont get it.