The Red Sox bats came to play Wednesday night in game 1 of the World Series. The St. Louis Cardinals ace, Adam Wainwright, was on the mound. But that did not matter to the Red Sox. The scoring began in the first inning after St. Louis Cardinals shortstop Pete Kozma dropped a double play ball allowing the Red Sox to have the base loaded with one out for the red hot Mike Napoli. Napoli crushed a ball into the left center gap, allowing all three runs to score. In the bottom of the second inning, David Ortiz crush a grand slam over the right field fence to only have it hauled in by Carlos Beltran. Beltran reached over the fence to rob Ortiz of his second grand slam of the postseason. Ortiz would later make up for it by hitting his 16th career postseason homerun. He has now hit the most postseason homeruns in MLB history. Aside from the 8 runs the Red Sox scored, Jon Lester was dominant on the mound. Lester allowed no runs over 7.2 innings pitched. Lester looked like a true ace in game 1.
Here is a link to a video of Carlos Beltran robbing David Ortiz of a grand slam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llvL6b09LsM
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