The most electricity you've ever felt in Fenway Park? Options

[BoSox Rule]

After attending last night's game, that is definitely up there. I could't make it to the World Series in 2004, so that is by far the most cameras I have ever seen go off for the first pitch.

In your trips to Fenway, when is a time that really sticks out for you? When could you just not hear yourself talk if you tried and you could just feel the electricity going through your body? For me, this isn't really a contest.

It has to be on July 29, 2001 against the Chicago White Sox. You can imagine how I felt when I found out David Cone would be going head to head with Sean Lowe. Two of the best pitchers of our time, and I was going to be there. No, wait, that's not it. It was Nomar Garciaparra's first game of the 2001 season. Before the game you could just feel it. And when the lineups were announced, I've never heard the place louder. "Batting third, number five, the shortstop, Nomaaaar Garciiiiaaaaapaaaarrra!" It was just nuts. It was just as loud when he came up for the first time, but he grounded out. He struck out in his second AB, but when he lead off in the 6th inning, my God, that was just special. He hit a HR to centerfield and the place just went crazy.

I've never felt like that in all my times at Fenway Park, except maybe Trot Nixon's HR in the 2003 ALDS, which was also absolutely nuts.

[IronManny]

In order:

1. Manny's first game in Fenway, watching him hit that homerun while the place exploded around me was just nuts.

2. Pretty much any of Pedro's starts during his prime. Every fifth day at Fenway was like Pedro day - the place was just crazy with that feeling of 'what is he going to do this time?'

3. Last night's game because it's the first time I've been reminded of #2 since Pedro left town.

[Deathofthebambin...]

The Pedro/Zimmer game, also known as Game 3 of the 2003 ALCS.

Even before the fight, the place was complete bedlam. IIRC, alcohol was not being served in the stadium after the 3rd inning. There was a fight on the field, a fight in the bullpen, fans getting involved, fights all over the stands. It was completely electric.

Let's not even mention the fact that the Series was tied 1-1 going into that game.

Mayhem.

[Jack Sox]

In September '05, David Ortiz hit a walkoff shot off Scot Shields. I was sitting 10 rows back to the side of home plate in line with Pesky's Pole and had a PERFECT view of the 450+ foot bomb he deposited in the right field bleachers. Just an absolute no doubter and everyone in the park knew it, including Adam Kennedy and Vlad Guerrero who didn't even look up - but just started walking back to their own dugout. Crowd was insane! That was the best baseball game I've ever seen live.

[Doug Beerabelli]

I was there last night, and I'd give the edge to Opening Day 2005. Especially the cheer for Fruit Bat, Pesky getting a ring, the banner going up, yada yada yada.

But last night was still verrrrry cool.

[Tizzolator]

I was at Pedro's first start (not Dice k's), but for me it was Game 5 of the 2004 ALCS after the Ortiz base hit in the 14th. At that moment, everyone in the crowd knew that the Sox had a legitimate chance to come back in that series.

This post has been edited by Tizzolator: Apr 12 2007, 01:59 PM

[tywebb444]

I was at Pedro's first start (not Dice k's), but for me it was Game 5 of the 2004 ALCS after the Ortiz base hit in the 14th. At that moment, everyone in the crowd knew that the Sox had a legitimate chance to come back in that series.

I was at this game, and for me, I had never seen Fenway that crazy. For obvious reasons games like that and against the Yanks, not sure if that could be topped. The only thing that could come close for me would be at a game in which the Sox won the WS at Fenway.

[bmacfarlane]

In no particular order:

Yaz's last game
Tek/Arod fight /Pro walk-off vs. Fruitbat
Ortiz bash walk-off

[Who The Hell is ...]

Papi's walk off at the Sunday Bash game! Woooooo!!!!

[Fratboy]

Pedro's return to Fenway last year was more electric than last night. The ovations that Pedro got were stuff of legend. For Matsuzaka? Not so much, but it was very warm nonetheless. The Japanese from Carl Beane was a nice touch, and the stands were filled with Japanese people.

Had the Red Sox not been pwn3d by King Felix, it would have been crazy. The crowd as a whole WANTED there to be electricity, tried to get it going on a two-strike count, but it just didn't happen.

[Zupcic Fan]

For me it definitely was the moment when all the trade rumors were swirling around Manny, and he emerged from the dugout and got the hit up the middle to beat Minnesota. The place was shaking---and the buildup was great because once that double was lined off the wall, it was obvious to many of us that the next guy would be intentionally walked, and if Manny was in that dugout, he was coming out.

I love moments like that.

[Jethro Q. Walrus...]

I haven't been to many important games, so the best one I've got was the final home game of 2003, with which they clinched the Wild Card. The Orioles sent out a truly horrible starter (I think it was Lima) and the Sox scored early and often, turning Fenway into 9 innings of pure party time.

[BGrif21125]

Of the games I've attended, the one that always stood out was Game 3 of the ALCS in '99.
It was first time that the Sox and Yanks had ever faced each other in a playoff series, and it was the first time Pedro and Clemens ever faced each other.
The three moments that really stuck out were:
Clemens's introduction as the starting pitcher, which drew the loudest boos I've ever heard at Fenway, louder than Arod's first AB as a Yankee in '04.

Pedro's intro, which is still the loudest roar I've ever heard for a player at Fenway. You have to remember that not only was he the starting pitcher, but this was also the first game at Fenway after the Game 5 performance in Cleveland.

Valentin's HR in the bottom of the first, which was the loudest I've ever heard Fenway in terms of reacting to a play on the field.

As for honorable mentions, Manny's HR in his first AB is defintely up there. I remember, in his second AB, he struck out and got a standing O on his way back to the dugout.

Hillebrand's 8th inning HR in '02 vs. Rivera was a great moment too.

[gcapalbo]

Seventh game of the '75 series. The chance was there to win it all, and Fenway just rocked.

I was sitting on the 3rd base grandstand underneath the overhang. The energy in the crowd was pretty much infinite. The sound was so loud it was intoxicating. You could feel it in your ribcage, and it was seemingly continuous until the Perez HR.

Pretty much silent after that, which was just as deafening.

[Tangled Up In Re...]

1999.
Pedro 13 - MFY (Clemens) 1

[BoSox Rule]

A few more of mine. All of them are pretty much 1A, 1B, 1C, and so on.

- Ring ceremony. This is probably #2 behind the Nomar return in 2001.
- Game 3, 2003 ALCS
- Game 4, 2003 ALDS
- My first Pedro game, 16 K's vs the D-Rays 2001, and Manny's first game two days prior

[doctormoist]

Game 3, 1999 Division series v. Cleveland, Ramon Martinez on the mound to save the season, Johnny Val going from goat to hero...the place was shaking.

[AusTexSoxFan]

I know it seems displaced but during the Summer of Morgan Magic my pops took me to a game against Oakland when they had the Bash Brothers. The Sox ended up winning by a run after playing from behind most of the game. Perhaps because I was only 12 so it all seemed really loud but that Summer, especially that August in New England was VERY special and you almost knew the Sox were gonna win every time at Fenway.

[ToeKneeArmAss]

Outside of Fenway on the night of game 7 of the 2004 ALCS. I've never experienced anything remotely like it.

[Razor Shines]

The most explosive I've ever seen Fenway was after the Trot Nixon walk-off HR in Game 3 of the 2003 ALCS.

The Sox were facing elimination in the extra innings, and the atmostphere was extremely tense leading up to Trot's at-bat. When he hit the HR, all the tension just erupted. You know that little "jump-dance" that the Sox do at home plate after a walk-off HR? Well, the whole stadium was doing that after Trot's.