Good thing the baseball gods came to an afternoon truce with Mother Nature on Wednesday.
Dennis Eckersley’s color commentary on NESN’s broadcasts has been one of the few rays of sunlight during this lost Red Sox season.
It wouldn’t have been right if a rainout had denied one last game at Fenway before his retirement. It wouldn’t have been right if Red Sox fans had been denied one last chance to hear Eckersley’s incisive, candid, and often hilarious commentary, deployed via his unique lingo.