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...game. I feel no need to put myself through the Bronx sturm-und-drang again until I inevitably have to do so in the fall. I watched at home with Luci and the kids, bidding goodnight to the twins, who are four and a half now, in the first inning; Caroline, seven, in the second, and Luci, 29 (really!), in the third. Assessment of the drubbing? Well, by my lights, it wasn't much of a game, and I say that even while realizing that by Yankee lights a 9-2 blowout is a terrific way to open a season...
...Another reflection: The calendar said April 11, 2005 but the day, as it unfolded in Fenway, belonged as firmly to 2004 as Ronald Reagan's funeral, Shrek2, the Presidential election and the moment that Dave Roberts stole second base in the ninth inning of Game Four. Roberts said as much, afterwards, in explaining his presence on Monday: "This is the last hurrah for all of us. This is something I don't want to forget." Roberts, a half-season Sox, plays for San Diego now, but had elected to be in Beantown rather than in Chicago on Monday, helping...
...venture far from home for its contests against local rivals this week, the travel has been less than kind to Harvard. Following Tuesday’s defeats at the hands of Boston College, the Crimson fell twice yesterday to the Terriers; once in heart-breaking, extra-inning fashion and once convincingly in only five innings...
...strikeouts, though, were part of a string of eight straight by BU hurler Brittany Detwiler that included three in the third inning intermixed with three Crimson baserunners...
...call by the umpire,” Kidder said. “It was an awful obstruction call in the 8th inning...