--game off--
first of all, let me just say that keeping this
thing up-to-date is not as easy as you may think, especially with the other
couple of big projects (j working my current job and looking for a new one,
researching an upcoming auto purchase, making it to yoga class on the regular,
etc) that i am also in the midst of. pretty sure that no one reads this but me,
which is perfectly ok. but if you are reading and don't like the pace of
posting, i apologize.
--game on--
2 out of 3. they happened to be the 2 games that
i attended, which makes them a bit more front-and-center in my mind. especially
since we got out asses handed to us on saturday night, the one i missed.
on to the games.
friday night was my first adventure to the
ballpark on a work day. i knew that it would be hectic, but really had no idea
long it would take me to get there. i was hoping for the best, and expecting
the worst, so i arranged for some dog walkers to take care of my girls and had
serina meet me at the office at 5 on the dot so that we could head south.
damn, traffic on 95 started as soon as we got on
the highway and continued until past the golden glades interchange. i was still
in broward county (the county line is 13 miles away from my office) at 6 pm; i
didn't pull into my spot in the garage until 6:43. an hour and forty-three
minutes to get to the ball park on a weekday is the reason why i'm glad i got
the weekend only ticket package.
we busted a quick move up to taste of miami for a
pork sandwich a piece and a shared order of the delicious friend pork skin
described in a previous post. mmmm, chicharrones.
missed actually seeing most of the first inning
as we traversed the outfield and headed up to our seats. unfortuantely, that
means i missed buehrle's sweet ass pickoff move that nabbed daniel murphy at
first. marlins got a couple of first inning runs with an rbi single from
infante (aka #omartheallstar) and a dinger from austin kearns that brought him
home.
(as an aside, is everything okay with logan
morrison? it seems like the odd little platoon in left field is favoring kearns
a bit, and i know that lomo has had knee issues. just hoping he's alright...)
the middle inning running drought set in early,
and nearly nothing happens until ike davis hits on over the right field wall in
the top of the fifth. the mets bring another home in the seventh and three in
the eighth (courtesy of two doubles: one off mujica and another off ryan webb).
the marlins close to within one in their half on
the eighth when #omartheallstar doubled in reyes.
and yet again we head into the ninth down. heath
bell made quick work of the middle of the mets order, three up three down. and
here we go...
call it stupid optimism or statistically
unrealistic hope or whatever you want, but it is hard to not have a part of you
that believes your team is gonna pull it off in situations like this. maybe it
is success against the odds that make walk off wins the most exciting wins in
regular season sports. i told serina so as we sat there, and mentioned that i
had seen a couple winners that way so far this season. expectations, we watched
the young-stud-formerly-known-as-mike bang a no-out double into left field.
nice way to start. cold-as-ice-sanchez moved him over with a sac fly, and
emilio singled into left. winning run on first... wait a minute, boni stole
second, so we got the winning run in scoring position.
when webb was pulled in the bottom of the eighth
consumate pinch hitter greb dobbs was brought in. though he lined out on that
at-bat, he was kept in as part of the double switch that brough heath bell into
the game, and dobbs stepped into the box with the opportunity to be the hero of
the evening. not one to disappoint, dobbs kinda looped it into right field and
boni sped around the bases to score. water coolers were spilled, and no one was
injured flinging shaving cream pies, so it was a happy celebration. nothing
like a swift kick of adrenaline towards the end of the evening...
visiting team (NY Mets) scorecard - 5/11/12
visiting team (Miami Marlins) scorecard - 5/11/12
here's my complaint about the night: the
post-game concert was d.j. z trip and l.l. cool j. at least that is what we
were told. it could have been a robot strutting around on stage, because even
from our newly acquired lower bowl seats we couldn't heat a damn thing. serina
and i left midway through. waste of time...
part 2--sunday's epic walk off--to come
shortly...
w00t
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