THE BOSTON RED Sox honoured victims of Monday’s bombing in their home city by posting a 7-2 road win over Cleveland in the MLB on Tuesday.
The players were in buses en route to the airport when they were told of the Boston Marathon bombing, which killed three people and injured almost 200.
They regrouped to score a victory that improved their season record to 9-4, keeping them on top of the American League’s East division.
Manager John Farrell said the team had been playing for the city against Cleveland.
“This was a good way to send some positive energy back toward Boston. (The tragedy) was fresh on everyone’s mind.
“Even though we might not be in Boston right now, we carry this with us.”
The Indians played the Neil Diamond song ‘Sweet Caroline’ – broadcast at Red Sox home games for more than a decade – before the encounter, and teams across the league followed suit in solidarity with Boston.
The game was decided by a seven-run second inning from the visitors – Mike Napoli hit a three-run double, while Pedro Ciriaco scored another run with a sacrifice fly and Jacoby Ellsbury added an RBI single.
With Monday Jackie Robinson day, players from both sides wore the number 42 to honour Robinson, the first African-American man to play in the MLB.
The Boston Red Sox players and coaches observe a moment of silence.
Pic: AP Photo/Mark Duncan
Great the way people pull together after events like these.
True!
A lot of people worry about the amount of evil in the world!
But it’s still a great world. Look at all those that ran to help, the injured that also helped those worse off than themselves. The runners that ran straight to the hospital to give blood – and more.
It’s only that there’s a small infestation of misguided evil dotted around the place.
Good is great!
Why doesn’t the consistent shooting sprees in the US ever garner this much attention? But I guess its ok to ignore them as this was an act of “terrorism”.
Not to take any light from this tragic event, but I hate having the differentiation between mass murder.
Pretty sure the shooting sprees have had allot of coverage too Jake! You seem to be implying that nobody cares about the shooting sprees yet their government are in the process of changing a hugely fundamental part of their constitution in order to prevent the likes of this occurring in the future!
Go onto facebook or twitter and you will quickly see that shooting sprees and the results of them are most definitely not ignored.
I’m not suggesting that shooting sprees are ignored. Of course they’re not. What I am saying is that the red soxs don’t hold a minute silence every time there is a gun victim. Sky news doesn’t broadcast coverage of the scene for 24 hours. People go “oh another shooting” and carry on.
Do you know when the last shooting spree was in the US? Four days ago, a man walked into a mall and shot two women at random. Did it gain this much attention? – nope.
And yes it took a shooting of a group of kids to bring the idea to the attention of the government that – oh guns are kinda bad. Even at that there is a lot of reluctance in changing their gun laws (not their constitution).
Im not suggesting that we over expose gun crimes in the US. but what I am saying is that I am annoyed at the idea that there is a distinction between an act of terrorism and someone murdering 3 times the number of people in a shootout. Its the same thing when that I get annoyed with the idea that a hate crime is apparently different to a normal crime, why should someone get a harsher punishment for assaulting someone with an ethic background and get a lighter sentence when they assault me for example.
Crime is crime, is crime. Often we’re not looking at it like that.
Jake, Massachusetts has had some of the strongest gun laws in the US since 1998. There has been a massive billboard hanging beside Fenway Park for close to 20 years that calls for stronger gun laws.
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Don’t think this has any relevance to what jake is saying to be fair. A billboard is something yes but it’s nothing like what we’ve been getting the last few days
Jake, I happen to live near the border with New York and Connecticut and I can tell you for a fact that the media still covers the Newtown School Shooting daily. It definitely IS NOT overlooked.
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