The FRS and the MFY are playing a three game series in the House That George Steinbrenner Built. Tonight’s middle game of the set is being shown on ESPN. Usually I like to watch with the game muted and listen to the hometown WEEI radio broadcast off the net, but tonight one half of the usual Red Sox announcing team, Dave O’Brien, is doing the play by play, so I’m keeping the TV sound on (even though I can’t stand the color guy, X-Sawx player, Nomar Garciaparra.)
Like last night, the FRS started out with 3 runs in the first inning and then built on it. Last night they won the game 6-3 and it was interesting to the end. Tonight they built a 7-0 lead, but then gave up 4 in the sixth. To quote an ex-Yankee, Yogi Berra, “It ain’t over ’til it’s over”.
I wish I could quote a couple of stats that were mentioned earlier in the game by the announcers, but they went something like this: In the last 500 games these two teams have played the wins stand at Red Sox, 250; Yankees, 250. Total runs, Red Sox, 840; Yankees, 841. Another hallmark of this rivalry is the length of the game in time and I bet there is somebody in the ESPN TV that knows the figure, but tonight we have played 6 inning (2/3rds of the game) and it has been 2-1/2 hours since the first pitch.
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