25/28, feel pretty good about that. Didn't remember Pichardo, Shiell, or Banks.
This gives me a rare opportunity to tell a personal story about Julian Tavarez, with special appearances from Jeff Frye, John Wasdin, Mike Myers, and host of other ex/future Sox.
It's August 22nd, 2000, and the Rockies are hosting the Braves. My dad and I are in town, checking off stadium #23 on our quest to see all 30 stadiums. It's a crummy day, light rain if I recall, and a crummy game. By the 7th inning, we've wound our way down to the second row behind the Rockies dugout.
Jeff Frye was traded from the Sox a month earlier (along with John Wasdin), and he and Tavarez (6 years before he would become a Sox) are leaning on the railing in front of the dugout. So I decide to tell Frye how much I'll miss him on the Red Sox. Tavarez LOVES this, and keeps goading Frye to acknowledge it, which he eventually does. By the 9th it's so thin in the crowd that I'm just shouting anything I think will make those guys laugh, with generally positive but mixed results.
But what Tavarez and Frye LOVE is when I give Bobby Bonilla a bunch of grief for not being as attractive as David Justice, who had also played for the Braves and had been married to Halle Berry (it's the 10th inning, we're all delirious). I'm ragging on Bonilla, who takes a walk and, because there's only a couple-thousand people left in the stadium, looks over at me when he gets to first, laughs, and, looking into the dugout, asks the Rockies if someone "will shut that kid up!" Of course, this prompts Tavarez to turn around and tell me to get louder, egging me on for the rest of the game.
Next inning, John Wasdin relieves Mike Myers in a double-switch which brings Butch Huskey into the game to play left. Andrés Galarraga, with the Braves now, works a full count against Wasdin, who then plunks him with a misplaced curveball. Andrés takes great exception to this, and in the middle of this miserable game a brawl break out. Tavarez is in the thick of it but avoids being tossed, comes back after things calm down and now REALLY wants me to give the Braves grief, which I oblige.
Next inning, out of pitchers, the Rockies send up the injured Brent Mayne, a catcher with a broken catching hand. He throws a scoreless frame and the Rockies walk it off in the bottom of the 12th. Mayne records the win - a historic night.
On his way back to the dugout Tavarez tells me and my dad to hold up, and we get a picture that's lost to time, and he tosses a random baseball, which I'm sure I lost playing catch somewhere. Loved Tavarez ever since, and was very excited when he joined the Sox.
Other ex/future-Sox pitchers who made appearances that night: Stan Belinda, Mike Remlinger, and John Burkett.
And some position players who got ABs: Javy Lopez, Todd Walker, and Terry Shumpert.