the postseason

Two days ago, I went to my first postseason game. Red Sox vs. Angels. Normally when I go to Angels Stadium, I support the Halos. But when the Red Sox are in town? I'm a whole new animal. My baseball family, the people I have gotten to know around our season seats during the regular season, had plenty to say about my Mr. Hyde appearance.

The four seats directly to our right are owned by a company, so there are always different people in them. On Wednesday's ALDS Game 1 it was occupied by two guys and their wives. Their only goal, it seemed, was to get completely plastered by consuming only alcoholic beverages during seven innings. (After the seventh inning they don't serve alcohol anymore, so there was no reason for them to stay.) It was very entertaining.

The crowd was completely insane. I've been at Angels stadium when there have been that many people in attendance. A fact that I know thanks to the attendance quizzes they have every game. But this crowd was deafening. They should have issued ear plugs. I'm ashamed to say that the crowd got to me. After the early run scored by the Angels, I was concerned that the relatively weak bats of the Red Sox could not make up just a one run deficit. Thank goodness I'm not a professional ball player!  But my worries were thankfully unnecessary and the Red Sox pulled off a 4-1 win. A two run shot by Jason Bay quieted the crowd down. A bit. There are plenty of places to read a re-cap of the game. I'll refer you to Dawn's post.

Lester pitching with Youkilis covering first in the foreground and the Angels dugout in the background...

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