The weekend of reflection and celebration will begin on Friday, April 14 when the Red Sox - including Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez - will give out over 40,000 blue and yellow Red Sox City Connect hats to Boston Public School students and staff at over 100 elementary and middle schools across the city. The current Red Sox will wear their blue and yellow City Connect jerseys that day.
The festivities will begin at 1 p.m., and the Zac Brown Band will sing the national anthem ahead of the game. That 2013 championship team - led by the likes of David Ortiz, Jon Lester, Dustin Pedroia, Mike Napoli, and Koji Uehara, just to name a few - will celebrate a reunion ahead of next Sunday's game against the Los Angeles Angels at Fenway Park on April 16.
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Still, the decision stung for passionate Red Sox fans, life-long diehards and bandwagons jumpers alike.The 2013 Red Sox helped the city of Boston heal after the devastating events of the marathon bombing, honoring the victims and survivors throughout the year as they marched to a World Series title. If he gets up, he might be obstructing, according to the rulebook," writes Samar Kalaf. "If he lies prone on the dirt, he might be obstructing, according to the rulebook. If the catcher is fielding the ball and the first baseman or pitcher obstructs a runner going to first base “obstruction” shall be called and the base runner awarded first base.īy the book, Middlebrooks was dead or alive on that play.
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“ Obstruction” by a fielder attempting to field a ball should be called only in very flagrant and violent cases because the rules give him the right of way, but of course such “right of way” is not a license to, for example, intentionally trip a runner even though fielding the ball. Rule 7.09(i) Comment: When a catcher and batter-runner going to first base have contact when the catcher is fielding the ball, there is generally no violation and nothing should be called. The rules, as worded, seem to suggest they got it right: The reaction that came over social media last night was outrageous, vulgar, hilarious, and probably tame compared to the furious Sox fans who were enjoying the game from bars in Boston.ĭeadspin found the "obstruction" rules as applied by the officials last night. It's such a rare ruling that most fans on Twitter were shocked it was called at all. Now, if you have no idea what an obstruction call in baseball is, you're not alone. The last time an obstruction call ended a baseball game was in 2004 in Tampa Bay. The Red Sox couldn't believe it, the announcers couldn't believe it, everyone watching at home couldn't believe it. But third base umpire Jim Joyce, who has a bad reputation with baseball fans, called obstruction and awarded Craig the walkoff run to win the game. In any other game, in any other instance, Craig was out by a mile. Sox leftfielder Daniel Nava was able to throw the ball home on time to beat Craig at the plate. Cardinals baserunner Allan Craig tripped over Red Sox third baseman Will Middlebrooks after an errant throw sailed past Middlebrooks into left field.
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