Green Monster

And tonight we've got two fine right-handers, Ferguson Jenkins and Mike Jorres.

And the story, with the wind blowing out to left field tonight, will be will the good pitching prevail, or will the green monster out in left field devour yet a couple more pitching staffs and will give us another run-scoring thriller as we had last night? Well, those questions will be answered in the next couple of hours.

We'll be back to take a look at tonight's starting lineups when we continue from Fenway in 60 seconds.

[upbeat music]

Yaz is at the wall, and you can tell it goodbye.

Home run for Campy Campaneras, his first of the season, and we're all tied up at Fenway Park.

Campy nails one over the Green Monster in left field and up into the screen.

It didn't clear the wall by much, but that's all it's got to clear the wall by here in Boston to be a home run.

Let's go, let's go win a World Series together, and then I'll take you to Fenway.

Look at this Green Monster.

Doesn't it look like it's fun to hit baseballs over? Go try it." Watch.

Go Google Vlad Guerrero at Fenway Park and try to do that.

I just, there's something, I don't know.

There's something to me that's inherent about him coming to Boston, playing for the Red Sox, the ovation he would've gotten when he got to Fenway, and the relationship his game would've had with the Green Monster that just makes me go, I think the numbers would've looked pretty damn similar.

And what would your lineup have looked like if you had 161 games of over 40 home runs, over 110 runs batted in? What would it have looked like? And what would it have done to others? What, how would Pete Alonso's presence have helped Roman Anthony start or helped Caleb Durbin ease in, you know? W-what is, what is Pete Alonso's presence plus the Red Sox also being aggressive at the trade deadline, whether it's adding Adley Rutschman or whatever they went with, what is, you know, what does that do versus a, a guy in Willson Contreras who I, I fully understand why, why his reputation was polarizing.

There was certainly more good than bad, but the bad was really, really frustrating down the stretch this year.

He's always hit well at Fenway Park, right around an 830 OPS in his career there.

He's a guy that's going to be a bit more of a pole hitter, so I could see him being a good fit with the Green Monster there.

But the one thing with Randy that's always stuck out with him is postseason success, over a 900 OPS in his career in the postseason.

So you know this guy is going to be a gamer if you are obviously trying to to go win yourself a World Series.

But his swing would fit really well at Fenway Park.

More of a pole swing compared to Randy.

So obviously with the Green Monster.

that fits so i think say it could be a possible fit there now if you wanted to go for a cheaper option that could play some outfield even a little bit of first base dh obviously jake bowers is coming off a career year 873 ops a 143 wrc plus 26 homers 11 stolen bases to go with it so could you see a situation where he can play some first base some days while wilson can dh you know If Roman was going to DH some days, he can go play some left.

And then I would say, like, Boston, Fenway, 'cause Fenway, it's...

They got the Green Monster in left field, which has so many crazy things with the scoreboard and where the ball can go to, and then, like, right field is humongous and has all these different crevices and where the ball can go.

So little things like that are what make it tough.

And then when I got, like- Later on in my career, my eyes didn't...

When I played at Tropicana with the Rays all them years, our fences would kinda give a little bit and kinda push you back.

So I knew on certain areas where I could hit the wall a little harder and not worry about the impact as much, 'cause I knew it was kinda be, like, a little rebound effect.

But then there's other places, like the Green Monster.

That thing hasn't moved in 200 years.

One behind the 78 Pirates, three behind the 1916 Giants.

And to show that they were home, happily ensconced in their familiar digs, Jim Wright hit one over the friendly green monster and left down her field, and the Sox went on to pulverize Detroit 9-4 and now trail by three and a half.

So the stage is set.

It'll be Mike Boddicker for Boston, Jeff Robinson for Detroit, the Sox and the Tigers at Fenway Park.

I'm Vin Scully, along with Joe Garagiola.

Welcome to Fenway Park in Boston, the home of the Boston Red Sox, the only team in the big leagues who feels happy and comfortable with its back against the wall.

The wall is the green monster, but just look at it.

The Red Sox have won 23 straight.

Wow.

It's Green Monster green.

It is Green Monster green.

So I thought that, yeah.

Yes, it is.

Uh, the Everything Sucks shirt does look good on the Green Monster green there.

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Um-

They try to keep the ball away from Carl Yastrzemski.

He used to hit a lot of balls out toward that green monster left field.

Here's the pitch.

Fastball.

Lou Brock coming back in a couple of steps and takes it for out number one.

And George Scott almost got that one.

We've talked so much about this green monster wall out in left field.

It's about 300 feet down the left field line.

nice place to be out there.

You know, we have the delay now is because one of the fans is on the top of the Green Monster right next to the foul pole.

And they're trying to get him down.

So, with a small ballpark here at Fenway, fans are using every devious means of witnessing this spectacle, even to the point of taking their life in jeopardy, as it were, by hanging off signs that are extended some 100 feet above the ground.