Tag: Boston Red Sox

Red Sox player Mookie Betts’ stolen base delivers us all free tacos!

Last evening the 2018 World Series got under way at Fenway Park with the Boston Red Sox hosting the LA Dodgers. I wrote this post last year about the opening game which was held in Dodger Stadium and was the hottest game ever played in the World Series reaching a 103 degrees. It was not that way last night with 40 degree temperatures and damp from some earlier showers. The Dodger’s ace pitcher, Clayton Kershaw, pitched in both opening games, this year going up against Boston’s ace, Chris Sale. It turned out not to be a great night for either pitcher with the bull pen for both teams being pulled in earlier then expected, but Boston defeated Los Angeles, 8-4, in Game One.

Taco Bell is again running their “Steal a Base, Steal a Taco” campaign for their seventh year. They are offering a free Doritos Locos Taco to all in the U.S. if a player steals a base in any World Series game this year. “Every year, we’re overwhelmed with the excitement from our fans when combining America’s favorite pastime with America’s favorite tacos,” said Marisa Thalberg, Global Chief Brand Officer at Taco Bell Corp.

Mookie Betts lead off for the Red Sox in the bottom of the first inning, singled into center and successfully stole second base shortly after. So that happened much quicker in the series than ever before. “We said be aggressive early, trying to get a run across, and on top of that I just wanted some tacos,” Betts told the FOX postgame show after Game 1.

People can get their free Doritos Locos Taco at Taco Bell on Thursday, Nov. 1 between 2-6pm. If for some reason they can’t make it that afternoon they still can get a taco voucher online and grab one any time during the day. If a Game 7 is needed to be played it would be on Halloween evening, October 31, so the day after that free tacos may help to celebrate the winning team and the end of another great baseball season.

This is the seventh time a baseball player has given the country free tacos during the World Series. Betts joins Cameron Maybin (2017), Francisco Lindor (2016), Lorenzo Cain (2015), Ángel Pagán (2012), Jason Bartlett (2008), and Jacoby Ellsbury (2007) in accomplishing the feat.

Go Red Sox!!! They will be remembered as the greatest Red Sox team in MLB history!

The Dream Fan Experience Sweepstakes at Camden Yards ends tonight

mlb-logo I am switching over to write about the beginning of the end of the 2016 MLB season from writing about the start of the 2016 NFL season last week. Once the calendar turns to October it will mark the end of the MLB’s regular season, then the start of the playoffs and ultimately the World Series. Now I have to disclose before I go any further that I am a Boston Red Sox fan. I was born in the Bronx and watched many games at Yankee stadium with my Dad,  who is the reason why I have become a Red Sox fan. He did not like the “big money” at that time behind the Yankees and it has stuck throughout the years.

red-soxSo we were extremely happy when the Red Sox swept the Yankees in a four game series that started last Thursday and ended on Sunday at Fenway Park. They came from behind in each game! Now they are in Camden Yards in Baltimore in a four game series against the Orioles who they have been trading first place with in the AL East. The Red Sox won the first two games of the series and are now five games up on the Orioles. The Toronto Blue Jays are right behind them as well at four games behind.

David Ortiz, Big Papi, has been having a tremendous season which he had said is his last. So it would be really special to see the end of his baseball career with a World Series win. Ortiz broke open a tight game  last night with a three-run homer in the seventh inning, and Boston beat the Baltimore Orioles 5-2 for its sixth straight victory.

orioles-handout1-1Which brings me to talk about the Dream Fan Experience sweepstakes that we’ve been assisting the Baltimore/Washington DC Ford Dealers run. It coincides with the Orioles home games at Camden Yards, with the first one being on July 22 and tonight, September 21, is the last game that will be promoting the sweepstakes.

Participants enter by attending one of these selected Baltimore Orioles home game and registering for the sweepstakes by proving their contact information and answering a few questions related to Ford via iPads at the Ford Dealers booth. Then they must also take a test drive at a local Baltimore/ Washington DC Ford Dealer at least 48 hours before one of four drawing dates throughout the sweepstakes period. A list of all participating Ford dealers are provided in the rules.

The final drawing will take place on September 24 or 25 and that winner will receive a trip for two people to the Orioles vs. Yankees away series taking place September 30 – October 2. The trip package includes round trip train tickets to New York, 2 night hotel accommodations and two tickets to each of the three games at Yankee Stadium. The prize package is worth $2,500. The other three drawings centered on the Orioles home games and the prize packages included the winner throwing out the ceremonial first pitch, pre-game on-field access experiences, diamond seats, a suite night, a behind the scenes tour and a meet and greet with an Orioles player.

So I won’t be routing for the Orioles tonight, and hopefully that last game series between the Orioles and the Yankees may possibly be only for a Wild Card spot. That is assuming the the Red Sox have clinched the division by then. Right now the Chicago Cubs are the only team that have clinched a playoff spot. A World Series between the Cubs and the Red Sox would be interesting!