My annual work group outing to Fenway Park was last night, and, man, that had to be one of the top 3 baseball games I’ve been to in my life.

I have seen the crowd at Fenway pretty revved up, but never that revved up. From the seventh inning on, it was really just deafening.

Kyle Snyder actually deserves a heck of a lot of credit for pitching a really good half game (he was supposed to start before it was clear that David Wells was coming back). Wells’ performance was a bit of a disappointment, though not a surprising disappointment.

But, of course, when it’s the bottom of the 9th, the Sox are down by two, two men on, and David Ortiz steps up to the plate, I’m thinking, no way. He can’t do it again. The crowd was just chanting M! V! P! M! V! P! And he does it! It just seemed totally unreal that something so astonishing happens all the time. The crowd was just totally pumped up, and nobody seemed ready to leave the park until they saw him say a few words to Tina Cervasio that got relayed to the jumbotron.

Excellent night at Fenway!

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