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Tony's Top 5: Highlights of the Garciaparra years
Tony's Top 5
Highlights of the Garciaparra years
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July 23, 2002. In a 22-4 Sox win over Tampa Bay, Garciaparra went 3 for 5 with three homers and eight RBIs -- on his 29th birthday, no less.
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June 21, 2003. In a 6-5 loss at Philadelphia, Garciaparra went 6 for 6 with a walk. Three days later, in 10-1 win over Detroit, he went 5 for 5.
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Summer 1997. During his rookie season, from July 26 to Aug. 29, Garciaparra batted .383 with nine homers during a 30-game hitting streak.
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October 1998-99. In his first two career postseasons, Garciaparra batted .383 with seven homers and five doubles while slugging .986. Yikes.
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May 10, 1999. In an epic performance against Seattle, Garciaparra went 3 for 4 with three homers, two of them grand slams, and 10 RBIs.
Tony's Top 5
Red Sox spring training story lines
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Shortstop Apparently, it's reached the point where the Red Sox have to trade their shortstop to trim payroll. Anyone feel good about that?
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Carl Crawford After a poor debut season in Boston, he had wrist surgery. And now we know the owner never wanted him.
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The bullpen No small story here. Jonathan Papelbon is gone and Daniel Bard is in the rotation. Welcome, Mark Melancon and Andrew Bailey.
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Bobby Valentine The last time the Red Sox changed managers, they won the World Series. Will history repeat?
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Josh Beckett By the end of last season, Beckett seemed to lose his focus and his fire. Can he bounce back - and stay healthy, too?
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"Embarrassment of riches" is a bit of an overstatement, Mazz, and will be until we're actually outspending the Yankee$ on a regular basis.
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Tony Massarotti is a Globe sportswriter and has been writing about sports in Boston for the last 19 years. A lifelong Bostonian, Massarotti graduated from Waltham High School and Tufts University. He was voted the Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year by his peers in 2000 and 2008 and has been a finalist for the award on several other occasions. This blog won a 2008 EPpy award for "Best Sports Blog".
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