Manny smashes #500 in Sox win

June 1, 2008 at 1:25 AM

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After teammates Dustin Pedroia and David Ortiz homered back-to-back in the third inning Manny Ramirez must have felt left out in the long ball contest.

In the seventh inning, Ramirez crushed Chad Bradford's first pitch offering to deep right center for his 500th home run of his career.�� The home run makes Ramirez the 24th player in Major League history to reach the milestone.

Boston beat the Orioles 6-3 despite Ramirez stealing the show with his 500th round tripper.

Star of the Game:�� Ramirez

Hats off Manny for hitting your 500th home run.�� I personally liked the sign tonight that said Manny Being Manny 500 Times.

Preview of Next Game:�� Can Colon continue his dominance?

Boston will feature a brand new Bartolo Colon who is 2-0 so far this season for the Sox.�� With Ramirez finally getting number 500 out of the way maybe he and others will be more relaxed on offense and the team can really get rolling behind Colon.

Colon just has to attack the strike zone early and keep the pitch count down and he should be fine tomorrow.

Categories: Baltimore Orioles, Bartolo Colon, Chad Bradford, David Ortiz, Dustin Pedroia, Manny Ramirez, Shawn Medeiros

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2 Comments on "Manny smashes #500 in Sox win"

Posted by Gerry, June 1, 2008 2:10 AM

My wife asked me 'how come everyone knows so much about the Red Sox?' Interesting question. It must be more than Fenway, the Curse, the History, two WS, alot of All Stars.

I think it is because this team is now the most interesting and most human in baseball, on a player by player basis, with Manny at its core. There are no "bad guys", just a bunch of interesting, successful ball players that we can identify with. 20 examples:

1. How many "Big Papis" are there.

2. Yooouuuuk

3. R.O.Y. little big man, Dustin

4. Base stealing, Navajo, rookie phenom, Jacoby

5. CA Survivor and WS MVP, Mikey.

6. CA Survivor and NoNo pitcher, Jon.

7. Dice-K of Japan.

8. OkiDoki of Japan.

9. Papelbon & Becket dominance

10.Bloody Sock Schill

11.Rookie NoNo Clay B.

12.Big Bartolo returns.

13.Coco Crisp . . . everyone loves that name.

14.Wakefield's knuckle-ball adventures.

15.Captain Tek.

16. J.D. cool.

17. Mayor Casey

18. Tito, and the All Star Game.

19.Even the Red Sox diaspora are fascinating, from Roger to Johnny Damon to Gabe Kapler & Hanley, Wily & Pedro, Millar & Nixon, Hinske & Julian.

20.Finally, Manny Being Manny, with his 500HR.

What other team comes close to such compelling, humorous, interesting, human drama? Sure each team has one or three of A-Rod & Jeter & Joba, Bonds, Utley, Johan & Pedro, but not an entire team. Add two recent WS, and great baseball on top of it, and I think that no team since the old Yankees of Mantle, Maris, Berra, has had so many stars who have become friendly household words . . . and simultaneously been so dominant. And Manny being Manny is central to all of it.

Posted by Shawn Medeiros, June 1, 2008 11:22 AM

No other team comes close in any league with all the personalities that we have on this team. There is someone for everyone to identify with and I think it is a great thing. You can love the loveable Ortiz, you can admire the grit and hardwork and run through walls mentality of Dusty, you can love the I am professional but like to have fun approach of Mike Lowell, and you can absolutely love the I am still a kid playing the game I love at the highest level in Manny Ramirez.

The last one is the one I love the most.

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