July 27 (2nd Game) BOS (Houck) vs TOR (Matz)

[a700hitter]

Max, do you still believe he doesn't score the other day when we were discussing the PR thing vs NYY? lol

This kid flies!

Super fast. Very exciting to watch him run.

[Bellhorn04]

Yes, the dude can fly.

[redsoxrules]

In fact, Toronto, who are 10.5 games behind the SOX and barely over .500, have almost a 20 run higher differential. Obviously, a meaningless stat.
But somewhere in Fenway Park the ghost of Rod Serling is whistling the theme to The Twilight Zone.

A few reasons for this. They feast on poor pitching/ shit teams but get shut down when they play good teams. Also , now that they are returning to their home part, their numbers are going to drop some. They benefited a lot from that dunedin park with the wind blowing out.

[Maxbialystock]

Iortiz,

Agree Duran is fast and was spectacular last night. He is the only Sox player who could have scored on that liner to the corner and slight misplay last night. They had one replay that showed him running all the way around the bases and it was stunning.

However, the numbers say that his top speed is only very slightly better than Dalbec's, and Dalbec was out by a bunch. Dalbec was trying to score from 2b on a grounder that the SS fielded cleanly.

Duran, age 24, reminds me of another 24 year old, Dave Sime, who ran the 100M for the USA in the 1960 Rome Olympics and won the silver medal, losing in a photo finish. He also played collegiate baseball at Duke University and was later an ophthalmologist and became an expert in intraocular lens transplants. Duran is 6'2" and Sime was 6'3".

I was overseas (between terms at college) in the summer of 1960 and couldn't watch the Olympics on TV, but I did get Sports Illustrated, which back then was a great magazine for both pictures and writing (Frank Deford was on the staff). Their coverage of the Rome Olympics was obviously unforgettable.

[iortiz]

Iortiz,

Agree Duran is fast and was spectacular last night. He is the only Sox player who could have scored on that liner to the corner and slight misplay last night. They had one replay that showed him running all the way around the bases and it was stunning.

However, the numbers say that his top speed is only very slightly better than Dalbec's, and Dalbec was out by a bunch. Dalbec was trying to score from 2b on a grounder that the SS fielded cleanly.

Duran, age 24, reminds me of another 24 year old, Dave Sime, who ran the 100M for the USA in the 1960 Rome Olympics and won the silver medal, losing in a photo finish. He also played collegiate baseball at Duke University and was later an ophthalmologist and became an expert in intraocular lens transplants. Duran is 6'2" and Sime was 6'3".

I was overseas (between terms at college) in the summer of 1960 and couldn't watch the Olympics on TV, but I did get Sports Illustrated, which back then was a great magazine for both pictures and writing (Frank Deford was on the staff). Their coverage of the Rome Olympics was obviously unforgettable.

I do respect your opinion Max, and thanks for sharing these memories.