9-11-17
Once again, no baseball for me on the tenth. At work, I was able to catch a little of the Brewers versus the Pirates on the MLB free game.
I’m not passing up any chance to listen to Bob Uecker. Since they’re
playing in Milwaukee, I’m also not passing up a chance to see Front Row Amy. Other than Mary Hart at Dodger games, I can’t think of any other attractive
women regularly showing up behind the plate at a baseball game. It’s kind of hit-or-miss at any given ball
game whether there’ll be hot chicks in the crowd on camera. When my co-worker went to see the Dodgers for the Fourth of July, I told
him to look for Alyssa Milano behind
the home dugout.
Much of the game conversation was informative
to me. I didn’t know that the Brewers
had just swept the Cubs in Chicago
over the weekend, though I don’t think the standings have changed. The Rockies
swept the Dodgers as well. It’s killing me that I haven’t been able to
listen to Rockies when they’ve doing well.
I almost get the impression that the Cubs and Dodgers are resting up,
waiting to turn it on for the playoffs.
Meanwhile, Cleveland’s
winning streak continued as they put #19 in a row. Ueker’s co-host asked him, “You ever seen a
winning streak like this?” “Nope. Not me.
Nope.” I was expecting a joke at
that point, but he was being serious.
It’s just as well I didn’t see much of the game as it was a 7-0 Pirates
blowout. It looked like a good crowd
there at least.
9-12-17
Game 1 of the PCL Championship in Memphis
was canceled, perhaps remnants of the hurricane were moving through. But in more awesome Chihuahuas’ news, I got an e-mail from Tim Hagerty. Having an
unexpected off day, he took a minute to send me a “Thank you” message for
sending a link to that article about the Chihuahuas’ disastrous Labor Day game
from the other team’s perspective. I’m
glowing.
The MLB free game was the Rangers and Mariners. My first look at
the game was 7-1 Mariners in the third. Willie Calhoun, the main product of the
Yu Darvish trade, was making his
first Major League start. His family was
there, cheering him on. He got his first
hit in the first with an RBI. My next
look was in the fourth and it was 7-3. Joey Gallo and Nomar Mazara had both singled in runs. Manager Jeff
Banister got tossed from dugout for arguing balls and strikes in the
inning. He came out and argued some more
before leaving. On replay, it was a bad
call.
Meanwhile, the Indians won their twentieth game in a row. Corey
Kluber had a complete game shutout. Eric Nadel and Matt Hicks (I was listening to the radio call of the game of
course) discussed comparable winning streaks in other sports. On the other end of the spectrum, the Dodgers continued their losing streak
to eleven. It was 10-3 in the seventh,
so the guys continued chatting. The Twins hit seven home runs in their game
tonight. Their team record was eight
against the Senators. Matt, from DC, was well aware of that
one. Willie Calhoun nearly made a great
catch in the eighth, but actually managed to double off a runner for an out
anyway. He’s looking good. The Rangers were not and lost 10-3.
9-13-17
There were people here at work tonight
doing networking stuff. I was getting ready
for vacation. Thus, I did not get to
listen to much of the PCL Championship Game 1 between the Chihuahuas and the Redbirds. The game started well for the pups with a
double by Travis Jankowski in the
first. The Chihuahuas loaded the bases
with two walks, but a double play ended the inning without any runs. Memphis scored two in the second and two more
in the third, including an RBI by their pitcher, 4-0 Redbirds.
I came into the fourth inning as Hunter Renfroe was thrown out at the
plate. But, Tony Cruz drove in a run, and Nick
Buss had a pinch hit RBI single, 4-2. The inning ended with Cruz getting picked off
of second. The Redbirds scored two more
in the sixth, 6-2. In the eighth, the
Chihuahuas scored two more of their own, but the inning ended with the bases
left loaded. 6-4 was the final. The crowd there was 3,700 for a weeknight
game. Cleveland 21 straight wins tonight.
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