Remembering the Day our 2009 season changed: Aug. 7, 2009 -- John's all-time WinWarble

On August 7, Boston was in town for the second of a four-game series. We were in first, but they had owned us throughout the first half of the season. They were smirking like the bastards that they are. They had Josh Beckett pitching, and we were sending out AJ Burnett, who had been sort of a disappointment, even though nobody wanted to say it out loud.

Beckett went 7 innings and gave up only four hits. Burnett outpitched him. He went 7.2 and gave up one hit.

Next came Phil Hughes, then Mariano, then Aceves for three innings, Bruney for two, and finally Phil Coke. By then, the Redsocks were pitching somebody named Tazawa.

In the 15th inning, Derek Jeter led off with a single. Damon and Teixeira went down. Then Arod came up. He hit one into the bleachers in left-center.

And then John Sterling unleashed the only recorded WinWarble in history running over 8.00 seconds. His 8.02 second effort -- without any verbal enhancements -- remains the greatest warble in history. See it. Touch it. Hear it.