Projo Sports Blog

They're not much, but here are some shots I took from the ninth inning of Clay Buchholz' no-hitter. (I was with colleague M. Charles Bakst, who, as you can see, has marvelous seats on the third-base side.)

These are fans cheering on Buchholz with two outs in the ninth:

Here are the Red Sox players mobbing Buchholz near the third-base line after he'd struck out Nick Markakis for the final out:

Some out-of-focus, postgame shots:

Like I say, not much. I just wish they'd captured the excitement at the ballpark.

It was quite a night for Charlie and I. He's been going to Red Sox games for 57 years and had never seen a no-hitter. (He'd gone to a Columbia reunion on the April Saturday in 2002 when Derek Lowe no-hit the Tampa Bay Devil Rays; otherwise, he'd have been in these very seats.) As for me, I was at Yankee Stadium -- with three Yankee fans -- for Dave Righetti's no-hitter against the Red Sox on July 4, 1983. This was the first time I'd seen a Red Sox no-hitter in person.

We'll have pictures from the pros on site very soon.

-- ART MARTONE

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