May I just say that I have lived in this town and attended minor league games for the past 20 years and I have NEVER seen a game as exciting as I did Tuesday night?
Good, ’cause I’m gonna….
For date night Tony and I loaded up the kids and went to the game on a whim, seeing as how the kids had never been to a minor league game.
The night looked and felt like a modern-day Norman Rockwell painting: perfect Summer-evening weather, a small home town tucked into a valley, with blue-mountain views at every turn; our team in red, white and blue, the gigantic American flag with the National Anthem and everybody stopping in reverence, the smell of ice cream, hot dogs, and peanuts, traditional and non-traditional families littering the stands and kids EVERYWHERE.
The game had been fairly close all along, and coming into the 9th inning we were tied at 5 runs each.
An unfair call threw the game into a 10th inning.
A series of fast-plays and a home run by the opposing team catipulted the game into an 11th inning, in which we were down by one run.
AND THEN, it came down to THIS:
With one out, the pitcher walked our guy to first.
He again walked our guy to second, and another of our best batters walked to first.
And then oops he did it again, resulting in the bases being loaded.
Our batter walked up to the plate and swung, completely striking out.
11th inning, down by one, bases loaded, 2 outs and another batter took to the plate.
11th inning, down by one, bases loaded, 2 outs, strike ONE.
11th inning, down by one, bases loaded, 2 outs, STRIKE TWO.
11th inning, down by one, bases loaded, 2 outs, and HE HITS A HOME RUN AND ALL FOUR PLAYER RUN TO HOME PLATE.
And the stadium goes crazy, Red Sox 10, Hillcats 6.
AND, as if you could really top that, I’m going to try – even though I should quit while I’m ahead:
I confessed to Tony that I love odd sounds. Two that are on top are the THX logo that comes up when you are watching movies, and the turkey buzzer from the Between Two Ferns sketch with Zack Galifianakis and John Hamm (is your middle name Honey Baked?) Warning, it’s NSFW, or devout Christians for that matter.
The third sound that I’m in love with? The sound that the T-shirt gun makes.
Lo and behold, look what I found:
Yes dear universe, that is a T-shirt Gatling Gun that shoots 24 t-shirts in 10 seconds. I’m not gonna lie, I want one.
