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Editor's
Note: Yep, we at the Times do know that the Red Sox won the
World Series after four games against the St. Louis Cardinals! Congrats
to the Sox team and their fans! This article is probably the Times'
first-ever sports report, so even though Game One happened almost a
week ago, we think it's worth publishing. Thanks for sharing this
world-shaking event with us, Maddie!
The first game of the World Series was played in Boston at Fenway
Park. The attendance was 35,035 people. Tim Wakefield
pitched for the Boston Red Sox and Woody Williams pitched for the St.
Louis Cardinals. The game was literally a sea of red, because
both teams' primary color is red!
The game started at 7:00 p.m. and lasted until 11:10 p.m.
Boston started scoring right away, in the bottom of the first
inning. Ortiz hit a three run homer to put Boston ahead
3-0. Millar then hit a double off "the Monster" (the huge green
wall in the outfield) and was driven in by Mueller's single. It
gave Boston a 4-0 lead.
In the top of the second inning, Edmonds found a hole in the field and
hit it past the third baseman for an effortless single. He was later
driven in by Matheny's sacrifice fly. No runs were scored by
Boston in the second, so at the end of two innings, the score was
already 4-1 in favor of Boston.
At the top of the third, St. Louis was trailing by three. That's when
Walker hit
a homer to make the game 4-2. Boston then had another productive
inning, scoring three runs when Damon went up to bat with the bases
loaded. He hit a single to the right side to score Mueller.
Then Cabrera hit a single to score Mirabelli and Ramirez hit a single
to
score Bellhorn.
St. Louis wasn't down for the count yet. They scored three runs during
a wild fourth inning. Red Sox pitcher Wakefield
walked the first three batters. Matheny hit a sacrifice fly to
score Edmunds, making it a 7-3 ballgame. Sanders scored on a wild
throw by Millar to third base. And then Taguchi hit a single that
scored Womack, which made it a 7-5 game.
No runs were scored by either teams in the fifth inning.
In the top of the sixth, St. Louis scored two more runs to pull even. One score came
on a double by Renteria. Another run was scored by a
single by Walker.
The game was now tied 7-7!!
Boston
didn't score any runs in the sixth, and St. Louis had a quiet seventh inning, getting no runs. Boston then followed that up by scoring two runs to take the lead, 9-7!
St. Louis managed to tie the score once again, getting two runs in the eighth inning to
make it 9-9. Then Bellhorn hit a two-run homerun in the bottom of the
eighth inning. Boston took the lead one more time, 11-9.
Fans of the supposedly "cursed" Red Sox were no doubt happy that St.
Louis didn't score any
runs in their last at-bats during the ninth and final inning.
Boston won Game One of the best-of-seven World Series,
11-9.
This is Maddie, signing off... and to all who know the phrase, this is
dedicated to Pedro the pitcher for the Red Sox:
Who's your daddy??
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