 MLB comes to London
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Yankees Vs Red Socks played in London tonight.
We get a couple of NFL games here each year but this is the first MLB game.
Game has just finished (just before 11pm) :
NYY 17
BOS 13
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It was 6-6 after the first inning.
That's quite a final score after 9 innings and apparently the game was only 3 minutes shy of beating the record for a 9 innings game between these two.
I watch MLB on ESPN over here. Never seen a final score like that !
Just thought I'd share.
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Been a Yankees fan since I was a young boy. That was one crazy game. The Yankees / Redsox games are usually off kilter.
Looked like the fans enjoyed the fireworks.
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The Yankees / Redsox games are usually off kilter.
Not just the games, the fans too  
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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Quote:
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The Yankees / Redsox games are usually off kilter.
Not just the games, the fans too
I resemble that remark. Game two was almost as wild as game one. How bout dem Yankees !
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We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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I missed the second game
NYY 12
BOS 8
BBC item said ...
The New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 12-8 in London to complete a sweep of the first Major League Baseball series to be played in Europe.
The Yankees scored nine runs in the seventh inning and held off a late Boston rally to win on a specially built field at London Stadium.
"It was a crazy atmosphere," said Yankees shortstop Didi Gregorius, who was born in the Netherlands.
"It felt like a soccer match at the end. Pretty cool."
After a historic 30-run spectacle in Saturday's 17-13 Yankees victory that took nearly five hours, the 59,659 fans who attended the second game at West Ham's ground saw scoring closer to the normal MLB performance until the seventh inning.
Boston led for most of the afternoon but they fell behind in the seventh inning as the Yankees punished several errors, scoring nine runs to turn a two-run deficit into an advantage that withstood a late Red Sox rally.
"The experience was great," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. "The guys relished it, I felt they were really excited to get here and they embraced the whole thing.
"It felt big, it felt important, and to get out of here with two wins from some crazy games with a lot of offense, we're really excited about that."
Red Sox manager Alex Cora said it was "not a good weekend on the field" for his team but that "the atmosphere was amazing".
The Chicago Cubs and St Louis Cardinals will play in London in 2020 and Cora added: "I played in many different venues, international venues, some great venues.
"What we witnessed here was great, the atmosphere, the passion, and I hope it happens more than twice. I know the Cubs and Cardinals are coming and hopefully other teams can experience this venue too."
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59659 sounds like a fairly full stadium
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