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Wow!

Some blog reaction (with more to come, no doubt):

Jason Butler: This may be a special year for the Red Sox yet. I believe.

One More Dying Quail revels in it all:

... Tonight wasn't about the Red Sox, or their fans, or the Yankees. It was about the game of baseball being played the way it should be. A young kid was out there on the mound, in a situation that could have spiraled out of control at any moment, and his team was there to pick him up every time. The Captain was there to call the pitches - all he had to do was throw them. And when they got hit, somebody was there to make a play, be it Pedroia throwing his body around or Crisp wordlessly guaranteeing that nothing was landing on the outfield grass without a fight. And on the other side, the guys in the lineup went out and put ten runs on the board, just so the idea of losing the game wasn't even a remote possibility. Go work on your no-hitter, young man - we'll take care of the rest. It was team play at its finest, everyone putting forth their best concerted effort for the glory of one. ...

Daryl watches the game all the way out in Singapore while ironing his clothes early in the morning:

... [T]hat curveball today looked sick. Just dropped in beautifully. And that strike to Markakis to end the game was a thing of beauty.

Josh Beckett screaming out "better than Curt Schilling!" was funny stuff. All in all, just a beautiful Sunday morning, me and my freshly ironed clothes. ...

Kellypuffs: Clay Buchholz is nifty.

Evan Brunell: Boy, his change and curve were FILTHY.

12Eight: I’ve been grinning ear to ear since that last curveball buckled Markakis’s knees:

... This is an incredibly special day - in this season, for this team, for this system ...

Lance: Thank you, Clay!

Maryland Orioles Fan was at Fenway:

It was a wonderful moment to see the Sox players celebrate the moment with Buchholz on the mound.

Emily makes some LiveJournal Buchholz icons.

Piney61: I'm still in disbelief:

... Holy fucking shit. This kid is barely even older than me and he pitches a no hitter! Holy fucksticks...wow. Just wow. I'm so unbelievably pumped up right now. The kid was fucking electric with 9 Ks!! 9! I was like so happy for the kid too, he was like crying and happy. Man ...

Jurassicpork considers Buchholz's total isolation in the last three innings, when nobody would get near him in the dugout:

... Think about how very difficult it is to no hit even a mediocre team like Baltimore. You’re hurling a projectile from a mound of dirt fifteen inches high and trying to fit it into a strike zone roughly the size of a college refrigerator from sixty feet, six inches away. Your pitches are designed to deceive and throw off the timing of an athlete who gets paid to catch up to and hit fastballs thrown to close 100 a miles an hour. ...

Major Bedhead: Holy No Hitters, Batman.