What was your most memorable moment from the Red Sox postseason?
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Man, there’s so much to choose from. It’s weird. It felt like the playoffs went by in a flash, and yet the Yankees series feels like it was three months ago. The postseason messes with your sense of time, especially when the World Series is on the West Coast. I’m still not sure what day this is.
Pasting the Yankees 16-1 in Game 3 of the ALDS after so many of the doubters thought New York’s Game 2 win was going to validate the season-long the-Sox-are-not-that-good nonsense was awfully satisfying. Watching David Price find his bearings and outpitch Justin Verlander in the ALCS clincher is a pivotal moment not just in the postseason, but in his tenure here. Seeing teammates rally around Nathan Eovaldi after his gutty performance in Game 3 of the World Series was a moment when I thought, “Nope, they’re not going to lose. This team is together.”
But the moment I’ll remember most was Mitch Moreland’s three-run homer in the seventh inning of Game 4 because that is when Dodger Stadium became Fenway West Coast. You could hear a pocket of Sox fans there in Game 3, but they were pretty quiet as the Sox fell behind 4-0 in Game 4. But when Moreland cranked that homer, it’s as if Sox fans were multiplied and amplified at once. I imagine that’s what it was like at Yankee Stadium in ’04, or other ballparks where they’ve celebrated great things. It’s the first time I’ve ever heard anything like that in person, and I’ll never forget it.
Got pretty loud when Steve Pearce went deep, too.
What’s your most memorable moment from the postseason? I’ll hear you in the comments.
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