Red Sox Hold Relay Race to Determine Who Takes Bus to Spring Training Road Game

With a two-and-a-half-hour bus ride hanging in the balance, Boston Red Sox players gave it their all during a relay race Sunday morning.

The Red Sox have a game against the Miami Marlins in Jupiter, Florida, on Tuesday. That's a lengthy excursion from their spring training home in Fort Myers.

To determine who will be making the trip, the Red Sox battled it out in an obstacle-course challenge.

Here's what the players had to do, via ESPNBoston.com's Gordon Edes:

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An obstacle-course relay race for the position players, which included the fireman’s carry (sandbag over the shoulder), placing a rubber ball on three cones and making sure it stayed on top, ladder run, knocking a water bottle off its stand with a throw, transferring weighted balance balls from one side to the other, clearing a set of hurdles and a final ladder run.

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This was a pretty official event, by the way. There was a referee and everything.

Here's a look at the action:

Needless to say, the winners were pretty excited about avoiding a long bus ride:

[Boston Red Sox, Gordon Edes]