Moment 10: Charlie's Game.

It's the time of year that people start with top ten whatever for the past year. So here they are, my top ten Red Sox moments for the year.

August 12. Rangers at Red Sox.

Charlie Zink made his major league debut. David Ortiz hit two three-run homeruns in the first inning (and very nearly got a third homerun in the fifth inning.) Kevin Youkilis hit a two-run homerun in the fifth and a three-run homerun in the eighth. They scored nineteen runs in a long, wild game.

I rewatched this game yesterday and remember it a lot more fondly than I should have. I remember it as being a fun game, very exciting. Knowing the outcome, it was bad. It was really, really bad. Texas pitched at the level you would expect them to pitch at but they were met with a equal level of suckiness from the Boston bullpen. Lopez, Aardsma, Delcarmen, Okajima, and Papelbon each trotted out there and only Okajima managed to keep Texas from scoring. It was sloppy too. Youkilis had an error at first and an error at third.

That said, it was a very memorable game. So it gets spot 10.