Astros 5
Red Sox 3
contributed by NeilT
With all the excitement over last night’s first-ever win at Fenway, see, i.e., The Game Zone, there’s really no need for a recap, and that’s for the best because instead of dutifully not watching the game on tv I went to the movies. We went to Sundance Cinema downtown because they have good hoppy craft beer (I had not one but two Buffalo Bayou 1836s), and because there are lots of people there on Friday night who are not 13. Plus you get plush reserved seats with handy cupholders.
I was getting psyched up for next Friday’s game against the Cleveland Subcontinentals, so we went to The 100-Foot Journey, which stars Helen Mirren who is a bitch at the start of the movie but a nice lady at the end of the movie. It also has a pretty French girl whose name in real life is—I kid you not—Charlotte Le Bon, and a family from Cleveland named the Kadans. They go to France to open a Cleveland food restaurant. Here’s the review from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and here’s the review from the Boston Globe.
Anyway it turns out that one of the boys in the family, Hassan, is the most brilliant chef ever, having been trained by his mother in their Cleveland restaurant, and he learns how to be a great French chef by reading books and falling in love with Ms. Le Bon. Her name in the movie—I kid you not—is Marguerite.
When we came out of the movie, the Astros had just tied the game 2-2 in the 7th on a Robbie Baseball homer (8) to right off Buchholz. The Red Sox had scored 2 off Keuchel in the 4th with an Ortiz single and Cespedes homer. The Astros scored off Buchholz (5.79 ERA) in the 5th with singles by Marisnick, Gonzalez, and Grossman. I was sitting on a couch out in the hall of the theater looking at my phone and waiting for Kris. It’s another nice thing about the theater, they have comfortable leather couches out in the hall. Those couches are unbeatable places to people watch while you wait. I was looking at the game and smiling at passers-by, thinking how nice they all were, when I realized the guy alone on the couch across from me, overweight, mid-life, bearded, was talking away but not on a phone and hopefully not to me.
Kris wanted to go to Kata Robata and get sea urchin (that’s a recurring theme in the movie), but I didn’t want to spend the money and I don’t like sea urchin, so I suggested Cloud 10 Creamery for a banana split, which was an outstanding redirect if I say so myself. By the time we got there Boston had gone ahead when Vazquez had scored on a Holt single.
This is Boston pitcherdom in the top of the the 8th:
E Mujica relieved C Bucholz
[single, single]
T Layne relieved E Mujica
[k, k]
B Badenhop relieved T Layne
[Dominguez RBI single, Marisnick ground-out]
Cloud 10 Creamery has great banana splits, but peculiar ice cream flavors. We had strawberry and pink peppercorn, chocolate sprinkled with Nutella powder, and sea urchin and cilantro. When we left it was the 10th and the Astros had the bases loaded with no outs. Marisnick drove in Petit and Fowler on a ground rule double, and Sipperstar closed things out.