Fenway
07-06-2007, 01:37 PM
be a proud uncle :smile:
Legend has it that Bowden, the hard-throwing right-hander the Sox took with their fifth pick in the 2005 draft, was patching potholes in his family’s driveway as a Mother’s Day present, just two days before a scheduled start for Waubonsie Valley High School in Illinois.
The labor and that day’s heat wiped him out for the game, dropping his normally low-to-mid 90s fastball - which had powered him to a perfect game in his previous outing - to the mid-to-high 80s. The showing may have caused other teams to shy away from Bowden, allowing him to fall to the 47th pick, where the Red Sox - who received the pick as compensation after losing Lowe in free agency to the Los Angeles Dodgers - claimed him
http://redsox.bostonherald.com/redSox/view.bg?articleid=1009909
Legend has it that Bowden, the hard-throwing right-hander the Sox took with their fifth pick in the 2005 draft, was patching potholes in his family’s driveway as a Mother’s Day present, just two days before a scheduled start for Waubonsie Valley High School in Illinois.
The labor and that day’s heat wiped him out for the game, dropping his normally low-to-mid 90s fastball - which had powered him to a perfect game in his previous outing - to the mid-to-high 80s. The showing may have caused other teams to shy away from Bowden, allowing him to fall to the 47th pick, where the Red Sox - who received the pick as compensation after losing Lowe in free agency to the Los Angeles Dodgers - claimed him
http://redsox.bostonherald.com/redSox/view.bg?articleid=1009909