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Bill Mueller was up to bat again. The bases were juiced again. As NESN showed his stats, I once again, stared at the factoid of his HR, thinking I could somehow manipulate him into making history. On MLB.com, one of the broadcasters commented on saying "If he can hit one out again, this will be the front page news" or something amongst those lines. At this time, I was watching the game. Lucchino was still in the WEEI booth with Joe Castiglione and Jerry Trupiano. Epstein was in his meeting. After taking one strike, Bill Mueller took a mighty swing. The ball was SAILING SAILING SAILING!!!!!!! It went over into the stands!!!!!! ANOTHER GRAND SLAM!!!!!!!! At this time, I was screaming out "HE DID NOT JUST DO THAT!!! HE DID NOT JUST FUCKING DO THAT!!!!!!!" I began to jump around like a crazy hooligan. My dad asked me what the hell was happening. I told him and he was shocked. At the same time, everybody else was in shock of what Mueller just did. Little did I know that he ended up hitting Grand Slams from BOTH sides of the plate, not just one. Now the score was rung up to 14-4 Boston. In the WEEI booth, as the call was being made, Lucchino kept going "OH MY", "OH MY". At the NESN booth, Jerry Remy was laughing at what had just happened, while his partner, Don Orsillo completely fucked up the call. Theo Epstein yelled "GET OUT OF HERE!" as it happened, scaring the board members he was with. Everybody couldn't believe it. Meanwhile, on the documentary on ESPN, they were trying to get an interview with the shy Mueller; they were in disbelief over what happened just as well. After that historical preformance, he sat out for the rest of the game, replace by Lou Collier, a temporary call-up.
As the rest of the game went on, I honestly didn't really care. Chad Fox gave up a few runs, sucking in what would be his last apperance as a Red Sox player. The game ended up culminating in a 14-7 win for the Red Sox. The talk was all about Mueller on the sports stations. The guys at the documentary were waiting for the game to end so they can roll footage on SportsCenter. When the game ended, the final culmination for Bill Mueller was that he went 3-5 with 3 HRs 2 of them Grand Slams. He had a career high in RBI's which was nine of them. Somebody would be very excited and worked up over a preformance like this, but Bill Mueller isn't your typical player. As he was being interviewed by Tom Caron, Mueller calmly talked about his night. He wrote it off as nothing big, just being thankful he was able to help the team win the ballgame. I was thankful enough to be able to watch this record setting night, for him. Mueller became the first to hit two grand slams since his teammate Nomar did in 1999. He also did it in back-to-back innings, like a few others have done. But he'll always have that mark in the books, for many years to come. This game was probably one of the most exciting to see, despite the frustration of the first few innings. |
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