Red Sox Domination of TYIB is Complete
Josh Beckett took Starter of the Year.
Jonathan Papelbon took Closer of the Year.
Clay Buchholz took Performance of the Year.
Hideki Okajima took SetUp Man of the Year.
Even Manny Ramirez’s camera-damaging blast took Blooper of the Year.
Now, on the final day of the This Year In Baseball Awards, the Sox are closing out what they started on the first day of the Awards — J.D. Drew’s grand slam in Game 6 of the ALCS won the Postseason Moment of the Year.
In fact, four different Sox moments took all four top spots – JD’s slam at 20.2% narrowly beat out Jonathan Papelbon final out of Game 4 of the World Series (19.5%), Papelbon’s pickoff of Matt Holliday in Game 2 of the World Series (13%) and Manny Ramirez’s walkoff homerun in Game 2 of the ALDS (which got my vote– that was unreal).
WOO HOO JD DREW!
I shouted that when I went to Fenway in September. I knew he’d come back and get hot!
I voted for him about ten times. Manny’s walkoff was great, but JD’s big ‘un showed that I wasn’t crazy the whole season long. xD
Just seconds before he hit that ball, I said to myself “oh my God, he’s going to hit a grand slam”….I swear, I swear…I felt it coming…way to go JD!!!!! Didn’t his wife have their second child last month?
I admit I was a little biased towards Manny’s walkoff, because I was at that game, and that 9th inning finish was un-freaking-believable.
Me and my buddies from work were at a bar that night. And when JD stepped into the box my buddie mike said hes gonna hit a grand slam.
Kinda like every knew in game 7 that when lofton didnt come home to tie the game that the next would be a DP.