Here and there, throughout every baseball season, the sport gives you a series small gifts. They vary from fanbase to fanbase, and range in form from fun oddities that define random summer nights, to promise notes of something electrifying in the future.
Tonight, we got the latest in a series of promise notes with Ceddanne Rafaela’s eighth inning home run, which proved to be the decisive blow in a contest that had spent the three previous innings deadlocked 1-1. Here’s the highlight:
This moment at the first Fenway game of September comes on top of a pair of game winning, tenth inning home runs on the road in July and August.