Apr 21, 2007 7:23 AM EST

The ball went over the wall, and Coco Crisp went with it. He didn't do much more than tip it, but he impressed his teammates all the same.

"What we saw was one of the better efforts I've ever seen," said Red Sox reliever Brendan Donnelly, who was in the bullpen when Crisp toppled over the wall in pursuit of Alex Rodriguez's second homer of the game. "He didn't get the ball, but he made a statement to the team."

"It's perfect, isn't it?"

Crisp got up from his fifth-inning collision with the short bullpen wall and tripled in the tying runs in the eighth, scoring the game-winner on Alex Cora's blooper over a drawn-in infield to help Boston beat the Yankees 7-6 on Friday night.

Via Yahoo.com