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madelineusher, to see the second baseball game of her life. Considering the last game was eleven years ago, and her branch of the family is not exactly sports orientated, she really had little clue about the game. But I loaned her a t-shirt and cap, and off we went.
I showed her around the park, showing off the interesting stuff and explaining baseball history and lore. We settled in for the game, and I continued to explain situations and showed her how to watch a game. The results?
She was shouting louder than me. When Andruw Jones tied the game with a two run shot in the seventh she was the first in our section to insist that ball was clearly foul. This from a young woman who probably thought a "foul line" meant highly organized chickens just two hours earlier.
The best part came during a tense moment, with the Giants threatening to score with two outs. She stated that she really wanted some ice cream, but didn't want to leave the stands to go get it. "Uncle Doug, could you go get me some ice cream?" To my credit, I didn't throttle her. (She eventually got the ice cream from one of the oddly rare vendors.)
Great day at the park, made better by an excellent game on both sides.
San Francisco Giants: 3
Texas Rangers: 2
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I tried to keep score, but a play in the third defied my ability to write letters in a tiny box. In the third inning, Texas shortstop Andrus retired Sandoval at second on Travis Ishikawa's grounder but his wild relay throw to first trying for the double play wound up in the Giants' dugout and allowed Winn to score. How the hell do you score that?
madelineusher, to see the second baseball game of her life. Considering the last game was eleven years ago, and her branch of the family is not exactly sports orientated, she really had little clue about the game. But I loaned her a t-shirt and cap, and off we went. I showed her around the park, showing off the interesting stuff and explaining baseball history and lore. We settled in for the game, and I continued to explain situations and showed her how to watch a game. The results?
She was shouting louder than me. When Andruw Jones tied the game with a two run shot in the seventh she was the first in our section to insist that ball was clearly foul. This from a young woman who probably thought a "foul line" meant highly organized chickens just two hours earlier.
The best part came during a tense moment, with the Giants threatening to score with two outs. She stated that she really wanted some ice cream, but didn't want to leave the stands to go get it. "Uncle Doug, could you go get me some ice cream?" To my credit, I didn't throttle her. (She eventually got the ice cream from one of the oddly rare vendors.)
Great day at the park, made better by an excellent game on both sides.
San Francisco Giants: 3
Texas Rangers: 2
Read the story.
I tried to keep score, but a play in the third defied my ability to write letters in a tiny box. In the third inning, Texas shortstop Andrus retired Sandoval at second on Travis Ishikawa's grounder but his wild relay throw to first trying for the double play wound up in the Giants' dugout and allowed Winn to score. How the hell do you score that?
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Date: 22 Jun 2009 02:34 (UTC)At any rate, as long as we have to endure The Abomination Known As Interleague Play, at least both our teams did well today. A pity Da Bums are winning (4-0 in the eighth as I write this), but you can't always get what you want:
Please don't mention interleague play--
Date: 22 Jun 2009 02:56 (UTC)(Yankees lost 6-5, as of now)
The Yankees have protested the game due to confusion created by a Marlins' double-switch in the top of the eighth inning.
In the bottom of the seventh inning, the Marlins pinch-hit outfielder Alejandro De Aza for pitcher Renyel Pinto, who was batting ninth. When the inning ended, Florida manager Fredi Gonzalez made a double-switch. Reliever Leo Nunez entered the game, and Chris Coghlan remained in left field.
Nunez threw one pitch to Derek Jeter, a called strike. At that point, Yankees manager Joe Girardi brought to the attention of home plate umpire Tim Timmons that Coghlan was supposed to be out of the game, with De Aza in left field.
For more than five minutes play was delayed, eventually with Coghlan leaving the field. De Aza headed to left field, only to be replaced by Jeremy Hermida.
After more discussion, it was determined that both Coghlan and De Aza were no longer available. So the mistake cost the Marlins two players, with Hermida remaining in the game and slotted ninth. Nunez was placed in the leadoff spot.
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Date: 22 Jun 2009 03:51 (UTC)Sandoval is out 5 (unassisted? I forget how the ball got to Andrus).
Ishikawa is safe on a fielder's choice, and (as I recall) advances to second on the error (E-5) charged to Andrus.
Winn, who started at third base, scores, and Ishikawa gets an RBI because you're not allowed to assume a double play. Ishikawa is assumed to have reached on the FC and would have gotten credit for the RBI even without the error; he doesn't get a hit. Charge an earned run to the pitcher.
(I'm not certain, but I think that if Ishikawa didn't advance to second, there's not actually a chargeable error on the play on account of the can't-assume-a-DP rule.)
Getting all that into the little scorecards they have at the park would be difficult. I had a fairly sophisticated score sheet, and even then you got into complex situations where it was difficult to figure out where to put what.
*When I was a sophomore in high school, I kept score and did PA announcements in the city of Bishop's rec league, for which the city paid me $4/game. Ergo, I'm a professional, albeit it was almost thirty years ago.