I was in the upper deck on the third-base side last night, and got a great like at Aaron Hicks going back on it. I think he thought he was going to run it down, the way he did on a ball Betts hit earlier in the game. Hick doesn't seem like a showboat or fake-hustle guy to me, and he started to climb the fence on a ball that cleared it by 25 feet. I think he couldn't believe how hard it was hit and how it kept carrying.
And the ball in the 10th was the same way. Gardner was running after it like it was going to tail toward the left-field line, like a ball hit by a normal lefty hitter would. The ball was hit so hard that it held its line instead of fading, and because Gardner almost overran it because of that.
And they both sounded amazing off the bat. Ted Williams used to say the ball sounded different off the bat for two guys: Jimmie Foxx and Mickey Mantle.
And the ball in the 10th was the same way. Gardner was running after it like it was going to tail toward the left-field line, like a ball hit by a normal lefty hitter would. The ball was hit so hard that it held its line instead of fading, and because Gardner almost overran it because of that.
And they both sounded amazing off the bat. Ted Williams used to say the ball sounded different off the bat for two guys: Jimmie Foxx and Mickey Mantle.