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Scotland's Tartan Army took over Fenway Park for Red Sox Scottish Heritage Night, bringing European soccer singing culture to a mid-June baseball game.
Thousands of Tartan Army fans swap footie for baseball at Red Sox game
An electric crowd charged up with Scottish spectators (i.e., The Tartan Army) in town for the World Cup sent an anticipatory surge of cheers through the air seconds before Connelly Early threw the first pitch of the game for the Red Sox.
What do you do in Boston after your Scotland World Cup team wins 1-0 over Haiti and you have nothing to do until your next match on Friday? The answer is obvious: If the Red Sox are in town, you go to to the hallowed grounds of Fenway Park.
The Red Sox had the right man at the plate with the game tied 2-2, the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh inning Saturday.
Prior to Friday night's game between the Rangers and Red Sox at Fenway Park, the respective bullpens for Texas and Boston dapped each other up. Hey, who says you can't greet an opponent before competition?
3) With back-to-back wins over Texas, the Red Sox won their second home series of the season — and their first since early April, when they took two of three from the Brewers (April 6-8). Boston is now 2-8-1 in series at Fenway; the club had either lost or tied eight of them in a row before this weekend.
