It continues ...
They're not going to let this one rest. Aaron Boone steps up again, Thorne repeats the flat-out wrong statement that the Sox hit Boone his first time at the plate on Monday (he was hit his second time up), then show Boone's "response," which was his home run on Tuesday. Apparently Boone just brooded through his last two plate appearances on Monday (a ground out and a walk) before psyching himself up for his revenge on Tuesday.
One could look at this and see that Boone struck out on three pitches in his first at-bat on Monday; then was hit on the hand by a breaking ball pitcher with notorious control problems with two outs in an inning in which he already allowed three runs (yeah, sure, he wanted to put someone else on base in that situation); then hit a home run the next night off a pitcher who has been hot-and-cold since he came off the DL. You could also point out that Boone is with a different team than in 2003, the Red Sox have a different manager, and they've won the World Series in the interim, but, you know, any of that info would muck up whatever plotlines they came up with in production.
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