Connelly’s Top Ten – Sunday Games Too Long / Crying Sports Movies / Right on Red
1.Red Sox
* Sundays in summer are for afternoon games (just like Sundays in fall are for afternoon NFL games)
* Stanton’s hit on Sunday in the first inning might be the hardest ball I’ve ever seen hit
* Why not to bet reason #1,362,141 – who would have bet in Vegas Red Sox – Yankees games on Friday and Saturday averaging 2:24
* Evoldi and Porcello threw 179 pitches – 133 strikes – insane 74.3%
* Nice contrived ejection for Cora Friday coming after the blow out Thursday night to prevent a let down
* Kimbrel took 18 minutes for top of the ninth Saturday ugh
* Brock Holt pants allows him to do the Charleston during Sweet Caroline
2. Best Red Sox lefty hitters at Fenway
• Wade Boggs…….369
• Ted Williams……361
• Fred Lynn……….347 (the one player we ran out of town too soon)
• Reggie Jefferson…345 (what?)
• Mo Vaughn………326
• Johnny Pesky…….321 (underrated)
• Mike Greenwell….312 (underrated)
• Yaz……………….306
3. Around baseball
Colorado Hitters average at home – Arrendado .358, Blackmon .332, Story .317, Gonzalez .341, LeMahieu .307
Colorado Hitters average away – Arrendado .255, Blackmon .243, Story .262, Gonzalez .254, LeMahieu .229
Texas Ranger Joey Gallo Stats – 361 at bats 148 strike outs (41%) / 29 home runs (8%) – 26 singles (8%)
4. Position ranks – Sounds of the game:
* Sherm Feller – Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls
* Bruins song (Minute Waltz) prior to TV 38 broadcasts
* Whoo – after a Bruins goal (cheesy like a North Shore girl with big hair and chewing gum banging the glass after a Lyndon Byers fight)
* The gun to start the marathon
* Sweet Caroline (pink hat swoon)
* Love that Dirty Water
* John Kiely playing anything
* Crowd yelling first down in Foxboro
* From Indiana State at forward #33 Larrrrry Bird!
5. Porcello versus Pedro one hitter in 1999 versus Yankees (greatest game I have saw pitched):
* Pedro…..1 hit (HR) / 0 BB / 28 batters faced / 120 pitches (67% strikes) /17 k / 2:53
* Porcello..1 hit (HR) / 0 BB / 28 batters faced / 86 pitches (79% strikes) / 9 k / 2:15
6. I’m just saying – Red Sox were up 8.5 games on August 20, 1978 – lost the lead in 18 games
7. Old School – The dominant Red Sox pitching performances back to back Friday and Saturday reminded me of that doubleheader versus the Yankees in Shea Stadium in 1975:
* Game 1 – Bill Lee wins 1-0 over Catfish Hunter – game time 1:59
* Game 2 – Roger Moret 6-0 over Tippy Martinez – game time 2:31
* Fred Lynn made the amazing catch in left center with Rice jumping over him while a plane shadow rolled over both of them
8. Amazing Stat – Could Evoldi be Doyle Alexander who came over to the Tigers at trade deadline in 1987:
* Evoldi First two games: 2-0 / 0 runs / 7 hits – 1 BB in 15 innings
* Alexander – 9-0 / 1.53 ERA
9. Just a Little Bit Outside – Moments in sports movies that make me misty:
* Rudy - when he runs out and sees the groundskeeper/friend
* Rookie – When he calls home to tell them he is being called up to the bigs
* Fields of Dream – “Dad, you wanna have a catch?”
* Brian Song – Gayle Sayers speech
* Invincible – Vince makes team
* We are Marshall – “We are – Marshall!”
* Pete Carroll getting slapped around by Ron Borges
10. Randomocity
* Ketchup over-rated
* Turn on red light under-rated (as good as touching up on offsides to keep play going in NHL)
* One of the most humid summers I can remember (oh oh – here comes and email from reader Andy from Vermont)
* I could listen to a loop of the This Week in Baseball song for hours
* MLB baseball are pushing TV to show more kids in the stands – ESPN and NESN are doing it
* Ranking Murder Mystery non fiction series – Making of a Murderer, Jinx, Keepers, Staircase
