Readers' Thread
- SSTN Admin
- Jun 8
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June 8, 2025
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Hey readers, enjoy discussing this topic:
What is your favorite Yankees vs Red Sox memory?
Here is mine: The one game playoff, 1978. Bucky Dent homers. That was magical, but that wasn't the best moment. Later Reggie homered. That was, to me, even a little more magical because I was only ten-years-old and Reggie Jackson was something special. All the Yankees were heroes, but Reggie was bigger than life. He homered three times on game in the World Series the year before - and here he was doing it again.
But the most magical moment was when Carl Yastrzemski hit the popup to third base. Graig Nettles was my favorite player. He settled under the ball, it seemed to take forever to come down (and I'm thinking as a kid would... "I hope he doesn't drop it"), and then he made the catch and the Yankees went crazy. That was, easily, my favorite Yankees vs. Red Sox memory.
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2003 ALCS. The Sox seemingly had the Yankees and the game in hand going into the eighth inning. Until they didn't. Then Aaron Boone homers in the eleventh. I thought Boston would never beat the Yanks. Until the next year.... Funny story about 2003 I may have told before. I was watching the game and after Boston went down in the top of the eleventh, I heard my then one-year old, who was a sound sleeper, start to cry. I ran upstairs to get her and then ran down the steps just in time to hear the crowd going nuts and see Boone trotting around the bases - I missed the home run! I forgave her...eventually :)
I was at the ball park, when a fan pulled off Jim Rice's hat into the stands, and Rice went into the stands to retrieve it, iciting a mini riot.
Another...watching on TV, when Yanks came back from 9-0, to beat the Sox.
Aaron Boone, 2003 ALCS Game 7, 11th inning. I was in a nosebleed seat in right field and had missed seeing all those hits landing in deep right during the game. But I was perfectly positioned to enjoy the parabola of Boone's walk-off. I could feel the stands shaking with the celebration.
Bucky F’ing Dent!
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