I was going to have a nice little report from the game, but after taking, uploading to computer, renaming, resizing, uploading to internet, getting the URLs, getting the HTML to make them a link, putting the URL in the link, naming the link, pasting the links in order, I’m fried. Besides, the pictures (and video!) all tell the story. Enjoy! I tried to take a lot of pictures so that the people there could join into the fun, but a number of things – one, some pictures I took were lousy (some are included below, some are not – I judged which were worthless) and two, I had to watch too, not just take pictures! Hopefully this will make up for me being a lucky bastard (see comments).
Some notes I will however write down which I jotted down at the game:
* Jorge Posada, the first pitch he saw in the game he tried to bunt. Then the bunt was off. Why put it on and then take it off right away?
* Edgar Renteria is so unlucky with these double plays. Early in the game, Trot Nixon singles, Manny walks on five pitches, Ortiz on four. With one out, Kevin Millar gets a two-run single up the middle, and then Renteria rips a ball to Jeter, who tosses to second to get Ortiz doubled off. Sigh.
* Terry Francona is the winningest Red Sox manager in the postseason.
* The Red Sox retired numbers are now outside the park near the Ted Williams’ statue. There’s a picture below.
* There was a standing ovation in the bottom eighth for Alex Rodriguez. You see, A-Rod fielded Doug Mirabelli’s grounder cleanly and threw to first for the out. What a novel concept! We had no choice but to applaud A-Rod for making a clean play!
* The lesser known the player, the lesser the applause. And there were no boos, but the park was virtually silent except for some clapping when Ramiro Mendoza was announced. Shame – good pitcher, injury issues, didn’t pitch all that bad in 2004. But he has a ring! (Thanks to amh03 at SOSH for the picture)
There were many highlights of the ring ceremony, from Derek Lowe and Dave Roberts wearing their Red Sox uniforms (as was reported, it was completely up to the player whether they wanted to do it or not) and the big ovations for each player, to the flag raising, to … gosh, everything. One thing I really liked was the scoreboard before each player. I took every single picture except Terry Francona’s, as I was late in getting the camera ready. I’ve also included some extra pictures below that I took of the player’s reactions.
The unfurling of the World Series banner and the raising of the World Series flag was awesome as well. There were also other little parts of the ceremonies I photographed – those are below.
The following are the shots I took of people walking out to get the rings, or walking to the lineup after recieving their rings. Some shots I did not include because it was either too blurry or you couldn’t really make out the player.
The following is the shots I took of the 2005 Red Sox player ceremony. I only took shots of the new 2005 Sox players because I wasn’t about to take 45 pictures again.
The following are either random shots I took, or shots of the Red Sox/Yankees as they were introduced as the 2005 team.
You know something? There was a game as well!
I took two videos as well!
| VIDEOS | The first pitch of the game!, Wakefield and Co. walking off the field after the 7th – Wakefield was done |
Well, finally. I’m done. Hopefully you got to enjoy the ceremony and the game on TV or radio yesterday, and maybe these pictures help you enjoy it more. Schilling debuts tomorrow!
Oh, and if anyone wants the original picture of any of the above (which is much larger) drop me a line!
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