C Jason Varitek had his eighth career multi-homer game Wednesday night, his first since Aug. 16, 2005. He hit a pair of solo bombs to lead off innings in Boston's win over thefirst place in AL East Toronto Blue Jays. His seven round trippers ranks second among catchers in the major leagues so far this season. The two-homer performance extends an amazing body of work by the Boston catcher on the date May 20 since the 2001 season. Varitek is now hitting .548 (17-for-31) with nine home runs and 18 RBIs on May 20 over the last nine seasons. Strange but true.
RHP Tim Wakefield continued to tack on some impressive career numbers against the Toronto Blue Jays with eight innings of one-run ball in Tuesday’s victory. The 42-year-old improved to 17-11 career against the Blue Jays—the 17 wins are tied for fourth most against the Jays in franchise history. Wakefield also became only the fourth hurler to record 200 strikeouts against the Jays, joining Roger Clemens (292), Mike Mussina (243) and Randy Johnson (200). Pretty impressive company steroids not withstanding.
Red Sox center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury caught 12 fly balls Wednesday night that Toronto kept in the park against Brad Penny, tying the major league record for most putouts in a nine-inning game by an outfielder. It was done previously by Earl Clark of the Boston Braves in 1929 and Lyman Bostock of the Minnesota Twins in 1977, according to Elias Sports Bureau.
Sadly Lymon Bostock was murdered while driving a car on Sept. 23rd 1978 in Gary Indiana at the age of 27 by Leonard Smith who said that his shotgun blast was intended for his estranged wife to whom Bostock was just giving a ride home along with another woman. However, Bostock was seated between Barbara Smith and the position from which Leonard Smith was firing. The blast missed the woman and instead struck Bostock in the right temple. He died two hours later at a Gary hospital.
In what many call a miscarrage of justice Leonard Smith only served 21 months of incarceration (seven months in a mental illness facility) for the murder of Lymon Bostock.
In the aftermath of Smith's case, the legislature in Indiana changed the state's insanity laws. After the change, a person found to be insane at the time of the commission of a crime could still be found legally guilty, and thus could be sent to prison if and when they were released from psychiatric treatment. Ironically recently in the state of Texas an inmate had 60 years added to his sentence for possesion of a cel phone.
Go Figure.
wil.
PS. Tune in Friday night when The New York Mets led by the Ace of their staff Johan Santana face off against a returning from the DL Daisuke Matsuzaka AKA Dice K. at Fenway Park in what should be an exciting Interleague Match-up between two teams that have a brief but much discussed history dating back to the 1986 World Series.
RHP Tim Wakefield continued to tack on some impressive career numbers against the Toronto Blue Jays with eight innings of one-run ball in Tuesday’s victory. The 42-year-old improved to 17-11 career against the Blue Jays—the 17 wins are tied for fourth most against the Jays in franchise history. Wakefield also became only the fourth hurler to record 200 strikeouts against the Jays, joining Roger Clemens (292), Mike Mussina (243) and Randy Johnson (200). Pretty impressive company steroids not withstanding.
Red Sox center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury caught 12 fly balls Wednesday night that Toronto kept in the park against Brad Penny, tying the major league record for most putouts in a nine-inning game by an outfielder. It was done previously by Earl Clark of the Boston Braves in 1929 and Lyman Bostock of the Minnesota Twins in 1977, according to Elias Sports Bureau.
Sadly Lymon Bostock was murdered while driving a car on Sept. 23rd 1978 in Gary Indiana at the age of 27 by Leonard Smith who said that his shotgun blast was intended for his estranged wife to whom Bostock was just giving a ride home along with another woman. However, Bostock was seated between Barbara Smith and the position from which Leonard Smith was firing. The blast missed the woman and instead struck Bostock in the right temple. He died two hours later at a Gary hospital.
In what many call a miscarrage of justice Leonard Smith only served 21 months of incarceration (seven months in a mental illness facility) for the murder of Lymon Bostock.
In the aftermath of Smith's case, the legislature in Indiana changed the state's insanity laws. After the change, a person found to be insane at the time of the commission of a crime could still be found legally guilty, and thus could be sent to prison if and when they were released from psychiatric treatment. Ironically recently in the state of Texas an inmate had 60 years added to his sentence for possesion of a cel phone.
Go Figure.
wil.
PS. Tune in Friday night when The New York Mets led by the Ace of their staff Johan Santana face off against a returning from the DL Daisuke Matsuzaka AKA Dice K. at Fenway Park in what should be an exciting Interleague Match-up between two teams that have a brief but much discussed history dating back to the 1986 World Series.
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