5-26-18
It's my favorite holiday again.
Frankly, every other holiday on the calendar has generally been ruined
for me, but not this one, not yet. Even
when I've had bad moments, I've still been able to kick back and enjoy some
sports.
Today was a baseball day. I was a
bit late starting it, as I’d gone out with my dad to the bookstore and a meal
at McDonald’s. That sheet of coupons
they sent out actually paid off for them, because otherwise, I’d never have
gone there, much less three times in three weeks. The quarter-pounders were okay. (Still not good enough to make me go back
without a coupon.) I began in the
morning watching the Braves and the Red Sox on a Mexican
station. Before the season, this might
not have looked like much of a matchup, but here in May, it's battle between
two teams contending for their divisions.
From what I saw, both teams were hitting really well. Neither team had great pitching, at least not
today.
For Atlanta, Dansby Swanson looked very smooth at short, though I
think he was hitting below .200.
Wunderkind Ronald Acuna Jr. would hit a home run off Craig
Kimbrel in the ninth, but he had a couple of misplays in Fenway's tricky
right field. The Red Sox won 8-6.
The Rangers and the Royals came on the radio next. I missed the initial scoring in the third,
3-1 Royals, when I was running an errand outside, but I still got plenty of
action. In the bottom of the fourth, Jurickson
Profar tripled. He seems to be doing
well this season with a starting spot.
He also got a double later. Joey
Gallo doubled him in on a near home run.
A sac, a muffed safety squeeze, and a popup ended the inning with two
runners on, 3-2 Royals.
I found out that Royal Whit Merrifield had a College World
Series-winning walkoff single. He
was making a spot start in center today.
In the fifth, he made a great backhanded running catch at the wall. Ronald Guzman for the Rangers tied it
(the Rangers are dipping deep into their prospects this season), and in the
tenth, Shin-Soo Choo hit a walk-off homer to win it 4-3.
In the evening, FOX finally decided to show a baseball game. There was some European soccer championship
on earlier. I guess there wasn't any
more soccer to show until the World Cup.
I figured I'd get the Astros game, but that was in a rain delay,
so they went to the Yankees and the Angels.
What a surprise, a Yankees' game being nationally broadcast. In this case, even though I hate both teams,
I was kind of interested in seeing this.
Shohei Ohtani wasn't pitching, but was in the lineup. The Yankees hit three home runs over the
course of two innings and it was 4-1 Yankees.
The Angels loaded the bases in the third. Albert Pujols struckout and just as
Ohtani was coming to bat, boom, Fox broke away to go to my regional game. I can't believe the day came where I was
yelling at the TV wanting to see the Yankees and the Angels playing. The Angels won 11-4. I don't know how it went down, since I got no
other details on the game.
By this point, Aggie Baseball came on the radio and I was very
preoccupied with it, but I still watched the Astros and the Indians. Jacobs Field (or whatever it's called,
they're not paying me to promote their sponsor) looked really different with
the new giant video board and a new paint job inside. The Indians cut Chief Wahoo from their
uniform, at least for tonight. Just
change the name of the team already and go all the way with it. How about the Flaming Lakes or perhaps the
Lebrons or the Social Justice Warriors?
Oops, still too Native American on that last one. The Social Justice Advocates.
I wasn't really taking notes on this one.
Astro Yuli Gurriel had an error at first at one point. Starter Lance McCullers showed some
anger about it. After the inning, Jose
Altuve went over to him and told him not to do that on field. Altuve then hit a two-run homer in the bottom
to give the Astros a lead. There's a
team leader for you. McCullers got
chased from the game after giving up three home runs.
In the seventh, Michael Brantley homered onto the centerfield
porch and hit an old guy on the face.
Hopefully, he was okay. They
didn't show him again. The drum guy is
still there, beating on the Indians' rallies.
He was wearing a Chief Wahoo hat.
The Indians won 8-6 in a back-and-forth game.
I totally missed the Chihuahuas today. I did peek in on a Mexican League
game. It was between the Bravos
and the Diablos. The stadium and
the field were not as nice as the Toros' facility that I've seen the
last couple of weeks. The Diablos won
15-6.
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