5-1-25
The morning began with a Chihuahuas double header with the Comets. The day game was scheduled, but a rain out in Oklahoma City a couple of days ago was the cause of the twin bill. The Comets won Game 1 via a walk off inside-the-park home run, 4-3. They play in a big ballpark there and once the ball got to the wall, the race was on. Tim Hagerty’s call was ecstatic, even if it was against the Chihuahuas. There were a bunch of kids there. Glad got to see a whole game, which doesn’t usually happen with a school game, and they got a heck of a finish.
Last week, dad ran into a Diamondbacks game being broadcast on a local station. They advertised that they’d be showing games, but there haven’t been any since then. I tuned in this morning for a scheduled day game (I printed up schedules for me and dad), but still no dice.
Game 1 finished just as the Rangers and A’s came on another radio station. It was also a kids day at Globe Life Field, but they call it, “Weather Day.” A local weatherman will give a presentation to the kids about the weather. I think most Midwest teams do this. The Rangers pitched well, but couldn’t hit and lost, 3-0, and the series, 3-1. Game 2 with the Chihuahuas and Comets, after the kids had left, was a 12-5 OKC blowout.
When I came into work, I got a Free Game extra inning with the INDIANS beating the Twins, 4-3. Jose Ramirez got a hit to tie it, stole a base, and scored on swallow single. The Free Game of the Day was the Blue Jays versus the Red Sox. In the eighth and trailing, Vlad Guerrero Jr. hit a three-run homer for the win, 4-2. Could I have watched and listened to more baseball today? Sure, but I’ll be content with what I got.
5-3-25
Here was a unique way to end a game. The Chihuahuas were up, 4-2, on the OKC Comets in the ninth with two outs and two strikes on the batter, Dalton Rushing. Rushing asked for time, but the home plate umpire didn’t grant it. When Rushing argued, he was instead given a penalty strike for delaying the game. This ended the game and started a lengthy argument.
5-4-25
More umpire hi-jinks in the final game between the Chihuahuas and the OKC Comets. (I think their new name is just okay. I’m not sure why they’re named that.) The pups won, 3-2, but lost their manager, Pete Zamora. He was ejected in the ninth after arguing a pick-off play that would have ended the game was instead ruled safe. The batter ended up hitting a come-backer to pitcher, Reese Knehr, who dropped the ball, but the batter didn’t or wasn’t able to run it out. Knehr got the out for the happy Chihuahua victory, except that the umps and the team suddenly started going after each other and people had to be escorted from the field. We’re not sure what that was all about.
5-6-25
It was a breathless 9-7 Chihuahuas home victory over Round Rock tonight. The Express led initially, but the pups took the lead, but then had to do so two more times in first six innings as the Express kept coming back. Eguy Rosario finally homered in the game for the Chihuahuas’ team record for home runs over Cody Decker. I think they were tied since the beginning of the season. Cody was reportedly okay with losing the record.
In further excitement, there were three extra innings games on MLB.TV that I got to peek in on. The most interesting was the Giants versus the Cubs. After a scoreless tenth, the Giants scored 9 in the eleventh to win, 14-5. It was full house at Wrigley, but the crowd cleared out during that inning.
5-7-25
A rare triple-header today. I started off listening to the Chihuahuas soundly beating Round Rock in the morning. This game included an inside-the-park home run for the pups. I then got a phone call from work that a gas leak had evacuated the building. My boss called later and told me not to come in. I had a free day off.
I took the opportunity to listen to the Rangers and Red Sox. It was a good game with a disappointing result of the Rangers losing. The radio station stayed at full power for the length of the game, which I didn’t expect. I had to wait for the sun to completely go down to find the Rockies playing the Tigers. It was tied when I got there and stayed that way until the tenth, when the Tigers broke through for the win. I had some divided loyalties on this one.
Alright, swell day. Let’s hear it for incompetent city workers. They’d broken one of our communications lines last week during street repairs. The gas leak was also part of this repair job. Hopefully, they finish up soon, before they blow the building.
5-9-25
Can you believe 10 scoreless innings in an MLB game? That happened between the Red Sox and the Royals tonight. With the game going to extras, I got watch the bonus coverage on MLB.TV. The Red Sox scored in the top of the eleventh, but Vinnie Pasquantino drove in the tying run in the bottom. Right after he did so, there was a Sasquatch sighting in the crowd. Vinnie’s nickname is “Pasquatch.” Some guy in a hairy suit was there walking on the concourse on camera like the famous footage from the 70’s. The Royals won it in the twelfth on a walk off single, 2-1. It was a full house there in Kansas City and seemed like a playoff game.
There were more dramatics in El Paso as Luis Campusano tied it in the eighth against Round Rock with a homer, and Oscar Gonzalez won it, 4-3, in the ninth with an RBI single.
5-10-25
After coming home from a 19-2 Aggie blowout loss, I didn’t suspect that that wouldn’t be the biggest margin of victory I’d experience today. It was actually a day of blowouts. When I turned on the radio, I heard the Rangers’ postgame show. They won, 10-3, over the Tigers. I have mixed feelings about this, as I’m a fan of both teams. Jacob DeGrom pitched well in the victory.
Next, I listened to the Chihuahuas open up a can of whup-ass on Round Rock, 14-8. It wasn’t even that close. During the game, Tim Hagerty had a guest doing play-by-play. At one point, Tim interrupted him with a gasp, as he relayed the outrageous mid-game score from the Rockies and Padres game, 16-0.
When the sun went down and I could get KOA out of Denver, I flipped over and caught the final out. The Padres won 21-0. Somehow, “won” seems like an insufficient term to describe the outcome. This was the eighth loss in a row for the Rockies. Last season’s historically bad White Sox team may be eclipsed this year. It’s like Rockies’ management is trying to reenact the movie, Major League, but the players apparently aren’t motivated to spite their owners and win anyway.
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