While Pittsburgh Pirates pitchers faced the minimum number of batters in their 6-0 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Friday night, third baseman Pedro Alvarez did the maximum amount of damage to a Tim Hudson breaking ball during the second inning.

To say he destroyed it may not be a strong enough description. The ball actually clears the right field bleachers at PNC Park, which as you can see in the video is a pretty amazing feat. It's not something that happens very often, either, and he actually came very close to being only the second player in the stadium's 13-year history to hit one directly into the Allegheny River.

As it stands, Daryle Ward is still the only player to accomplish the impressive feat of strength all the way back on July 6, 2002 as a member of the Houston Astros. Ward's ball traveled an estimated 479 feet. It's said the shortest possible distance a home run can travel and land directly in the water is 456 feet right down the right field line. Alvarez's homer was officially listed at 448, but was closer to straight away right field.

I was honestly a little surprised to see the microphone passed to him to close out the emotional and well produced pregame ceremony at Fenway Park on Saturday. But he is, after all, the longest tenured Boston Red Sox player in uniform, and, let's be honest, he's their most recognizable face and voice as well.

He was actually the perfect guy to deliver that final, heartfelt message to the city he's called home for the past ten years, and though you may not completely agree with the colorful language he uses, his statement is quick, loud, clear, and one-hundred percent on point.

Here's the video now courtesy of MLB. There's a well-timed bleep so you should be safe to watch this anywhere.

Not long after law enforcement officials captured Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Friday night, the Boston Red Sox excitedly tweeted that baseball would be returning to Fenway Park on Saturday afternoon.

We can confirm that #RedSox game scheduled for tomorrow at 1:10pm is on. Pre-game ceremonies likely to begin @ 1pm #BostonStrong

— Boston Red Sox (@RedSox) April 20, 2013

It was also announced that Saturday's game will be broadcast by MLB Network, with a special pregame show beginning at 12:30 p.m. ET. Standard blackout rules apply in the Boston and Kansas City markets. Part of the pre-game ceremonies was an American Flag drop by first-responders and volunteers from the Boston community. Billie Weiss, the assistant team photographer for the Red Sox, captured the must-watch video above during preparations.

Obviously this is a big day for the city of Boston as evidenced by the celebrations in the streets late Friday night into Saturday morning and even the reactions from all around the country — including Citi Field in New York — and there's nothing bigger in town than a Red Sox game at Fenway. It might even feel like opening day all over again. After spending four terrifying days (that probably felt like four months) wondering and waiting, they can finally get back to normal and turn their pent up anxiety into positive energy.

The most important lesson baseball fans should learn is that you haven't seen it all and you likely never will. Understand the lesson and accept it because just when you think you have seen it all on a baseball field, something like Jean Segura's baserunning adventure during Friday's night Brewers-Cubs game at Miller Park happens, and then you attempt to convince yourself again at that very moment that now you've seen it all.

You'll still be wrong. Trust me.

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Now, before I go any further, I think it would be best for you to view the video in its entirely once, and perhaps twice, because if you don't, everything I write from this point on will make little sense.

All set?

Here's what happened step-by-step.

(USA Today)An already short-handed Texas Rangers rotation took another big hit on Friday when it was learned that opening day starter Matt Harrison's ailing back will require surgery and keep him sidelined until at least the all-star break.

Harrison first hit the disabled list on April 7 with what was described as a lower-back strain. That was initially treated with multiple epidural injections designed to alleviate discomfort and hopefully expedite his return. When those did not work, further testing was done and that's where the Rangers learned his condition was worse than anticipated.

Rangers GM Jon Daniels says Matt Harrison has a herniated disk. Will have back surgery Tuesday. — Anthony Andro (@aandro) April 19, 2013

Ouch. Harrison now joins Neftali Feliz (elbow), Colby Lewis (elbow) and Martin Perez (fractured forearm) as Rangers starting pitchers on the disabled list. They're also without Joakim Soria (elbow) and Kyle McClellan (lat) in their bullpen.

The good news: Both Lewis and Perez

Willie Mays and wife Mae on New York City subway in August 1979. (AP)Sad news to report from the San Francisco Giants family on Friday night as the team announced that Mae Louise Allen Mays, the wife Giants legend and baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays, died after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. She was 74.

Mae and Willie were married in November of 1971, but their relationship actually dated back ten years earlier and their initial meeting actually has a pretty funny story attached to it. Chris Haft shared that story over at MLB.com.

Their formal introduction resulted from the future Hall of Famer's most prolific day in baseball -- his four-homer performance at Milwaukee on April 30, 1961. According to Mays, Ed Sullivan flew him to New York to appear on his popular Sunday night television show. Afterward, Mays went to Small's Paradise, a Harlem nightclub owned at the time by Wilt Chamberlain. The basketball star suggested to Mays that he and Mae should meet and gave him her phone number.

The next day, as Mays related in his autobiography, he made the call.

"You don't know me, but I'm Willie Mays," he said.

"And I'm Martha Washington," a skeptical Mae replied.

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(AP)Harvey outduels Strasburg in marquee matchup: On a night 26,675 fans chanted "U-S-A! U-S-A!" in unison following the capture of the Boston Marathon suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Citi Field faithful also chanted "Harvey's better" in support of their new ace, 24-year-old Matt Harvey, as he outpitched Stephen Strasburg and led the Mets to a 7-1 victory.

Harvey started the game with an electric strikeout of Denard Span on a 98 mph fastball and didn't lose much along the way as he ended up tossing seven innings of one-run ball with seven strikeouts. That was plenty good enough to become the first four-game winner in Major League Baseball.

On the flipside, Strasburg was pretty good himself, striking out six over six frames, but fell victim to the longball as Ike Davis and Lucas Duda each went yard in his final inning. Davis and Duda would also homer again in the eighth off Drew Storen, so this was certainly a breakout night for the Mets offense and an all around fun night to be at Citi Field.

(MLB on Twitter)It started with a single tweet from the Boston Police Department.

CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody.

— Boston Police Dept. (@Boston_Police) April 19, 2013

Shortly thereafter, there was much rejoicing in the streets of Watertown, Mass. as the news of the second Boston Marathon bombing suspect being taken into custody began tricked throughout their community, the greater Boston area, and all around the United States.

That would include Citi Field in New York where the Mets were taking on the Washington Nationals in Friday night's spotlight game — thanks to the intriguing pitching matchup of 24-year-old right-handers Stephen Strasburg and Matt Harvey. When the announcement was made on the scoreboard, the crowd diverted their attention away from the action on the field and immediately erupted into chants of "U-S-A! U-S-A!"