Spring Forward!
By lefty
April powers bring October honors. April hollers bring fall dollars. Spring forward, fall back. Umm, I should have quit while I was still ahead.
Beating the Yankees when fall leaves are drifting downward is better than when the buds are blooming. Still, with the running of America’s proudest marathon, the Bruins loosing a heartbreaking seventh game, and the Super Bowl Champion Patriots making player moves, the Red Sox owned this Patriots Day.
They owned this day because they fought back. They came back from a 4-1 third inning lead to knock Yankee ace Kevin Brown out of the game. Gabe Kapler came back from early Alzheimer’s base running to deliver the game winning RBI. David McCarty was in scoring position because he hustled an ordinary pop-up into a double on a Hideki Matsui macular moment for his first hit of the season. Manny Ramirez bounced off the wall to send Bernie Williams whimpering back to the dugout.
The Yankees will not loose three out of four too often this season, and it’s unlikely Alex Rodriquez will go 1 for 17 much as well. But this isn’t about them anymore - whatever the Yankees do, the Sox need to go forward with the kind of winning attitude they showed this past weekend - making a strong, steady run to the series. Bear the heat, conquer Heartbreak Hill, then it's full speed ahead. Yankees be damned.
