Mookie Betts stole second base in the fourth inning of last night's 6-2 victory over the Orioles. His head-first slide prompted this conversation from NESN's Dave O'Brien and Dennis Eckersley:
Eckersley: I hate those head-long dives, but that's the way you got to get them. I used to watch Davey Lopes. He never would go in head-first. You remember Davey Lopes, with the Dodgers?
O'Brien: Sure, oh yeah.
Eckersley: He never slowed down on his slide. He had the quickest little slide on his -- feet slide.
O'Brien: The Dodgers won a lot of 1-0 games because he'd get on, steal a base, and someone would drive him in with a sac fly.