Thanksgiving, Red Sox Style: Your Biggest Single SoxGasm Moment

[Al Zarilla]

I still smile whenever I hear a ball hit the foul pole.

I even get a Bellhorn flashback when a fast moving puck strikes iron in a hockey game. Less if a Bruin shoots and it bounces out.

MLBN has been showing World Series films, and in the case of 2004, a lot of the LCS. 2 hours each and 2013 is coming up at 8 a.m. Pacific. Anyway, the whole 2004 post season is it for me. On a Richter-like scale, it's like a 6 for the LDS, 9 for the LCS and an 8 for the WS. Hard to fathom coming down for the World Series, but can't deny it.

 

[LoweTek]

I'm kind of surprised nobody else has mentioned this. Everyone has had this moment, I assume.
 
Mine was September 1, 1967, a Friday afternoon 2:30 start, against the White Sox. It was Ken Harrelson's breakout game, his third since being acquired as a free agent a few days after Hamilton-Conigliaro happened. A 10-2 rout where he was a single short of the cycle. Tartabull was the CG winner.
 
The memorable action is one thing but the tickets were in section 14. This of course meant I had that unforgettable walk up the short ramp and with each step watched the ever expanding green everywhere as I saw Fenway Park for the first time. A spiritual moment, almost. I froze, gawking as I reached the aisle. Crowd nearly ran me over.
 
My first game at Fenway was my biggest moment.
 

 

[Clears Cleaver]

In person was perhaps Victorino's basing clearing triple in game 6. Fenway was electric and that sent people to another level. It was a party after that.

Besides all the Ortiz heroics and the 2004 moments mentioned I'd say the strikeout of Tony Clark to end game 6. After the umps got the ARod play correct and the fans started littering the field, I felt the Sox would do it. But then Clark came up and that inner confidence evaporated into 30 plus years of accumulated angst. When he swung through that fastball it was truly soxgasmic