It was October 3rd, 2007, four days after the Boston Red Sox won the American League East Division Champion pennant. Josh Beckett, the only Major League’s 20 games winner in 2007 season, stepped on the mound at Fenway Park, the most beloved baseball diamond in America, to start the first game of American League Division Series between the Los Angeles Angels and Boston Red Sox.
He was the MVP of 2003 World Series, he had been the Red Sox’s ace whole the season, and he showed his stuff. Nine innings’ pitching, he threw 108 pitches, with no walk and 8 strikeouts; he allowed only 4 hits and didn’t give up any run. He pitched a complete-game shutout.
He was backed by his teammate, first baseman Kevin Youkillis and designated hitter David Ortiz. The former hit a solo homerun, the latter hit a two-run shot. And those were all the runs support that he needed. For his pitches roared through the air, cut a path through time itself, and when they crossed the plate, the Angels just didn’t know what had happened when they were called out.
Red Sox won the first game of this best-of-five series, and there are two more to go.
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