 Mike Timlin, looking fetching in the playoff sweatshirt. |
 Jacoby Ellsbury plays "Bounce the ball off Brandon's head." |
 A very uptight looking bunch. |
 Papelbon tries to entice Bobby Kielty to join some kind of lunacy. |
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 Kyle Snyder looking fetching in his playoff sweatshirt. |
 Clay Buchholz looking--well, you get it, I'm sure. |
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 It's a Timlin-Javy Lopez staredown in the lineup! |
 Check the size of Pedroia's arm and hand vs. Youk's. |
 Manny as he's introduced. |
 Alex Cora and Manny Delcarmen. |
 Coco Crisp and Julio Lugo. |
 Wakefield and Timlin gaze off. |
 Manny Delcarmen. |
 Daisuke Matsuzaka. |
 "Pssst... Clay... don't look now, but the chick with the camera is back!" |
 Jacoby Ellsbury is introduced... |
 ... and can't hold back a smile. |
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 Clay Buchholz and Eric Gagne. |
 Watch Brendan Donnelly and Buchholz try to keep straight faces as Papelbon is introduced... |
 ... and tries to look all serious and menacing. |
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 (yeah yeah. I know. Too many shots. But he's grinning!) |
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 Uh oh--front line hilarity with Papi, Manny and Mike Lowell! |
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 Paul Lessard, Mike Reinhold, and Masai Takahashi. There has to be a sitcom here somewhere. |
 Johnny Pesky! |
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 I wonder if Gagne is telling Buck about the flyover. |
 The Standells! |
 The 40's are a relatively clean cut bunch. |
 Things get a little more highly charged as you get further up the line! |
 Flyover! |
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 I gazed enviously at the additional photographers' wells. Note one of my heroes, Brita Meng Outzen, standing. |
 Jerry Remy threw out the first pitch. |
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 And finally Josh Beckett took the mound. |
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 Orlando Cabrera. |
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 I'm easily amused. ^_^ |
 ... as is Manny! |
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 They changed the bases after every full inning. I guess you can sell a lot more game-used bases that way. |
 Mmmmmmnnn... Tek. ^_^ |
 Papi at a comfortable lope means only one thing! |
 But I've got a little too much zoom here--whoops! |
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 Tek and Vlad gaze back after a foul. |
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 J.D. Drew will ruin his emotionless rep if he keeps smiling like this. |
 Uh oh--busted by Bobby Kielty. |
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 And that one out was all Jacoby! |
 Blurry sequence but I liked Beckett's reaction to the ball. |
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 Giving Tek his props... |
 ... before they give each other congratulatory punches to the side of the head. |
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 Lowell skritches Pedie on the head. |
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 Jon Lester was beaming all the way in. ^_^ |
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