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went to the game tonight and what an awesome time. fuck the Mets and overpriced citi field, we got in for $17 each prepaid, sat 20 feet from the field, and saw a really exciting game including:
-a diving defensive play by tri-city's SS that nobody on the Mets active roster could make
-a dropped flyball (hey, its still single-A)
-FOUR strikeouts in one inning for the Mets 35th round pick, a college pitcher out of The Citadel named Wrenn.
-the horrors of bunting, as tri-city moved them up with 1st and 2nd but the Cyclones K'd the next better and then got the pop-out
-heads up baserunning that you sure won't see in flushing: with 1st and 3rd and 1 out, there was a ground ball to the second baseman, the runner on first stopped and got himself caught in a run-down which led them to get the force at forst and then tag him out... but not before the run came home and it counted because it wasnt a force.
-the tri-city SS got taken out on a double play by a hard (but clean) slide but hung in there to complete the DP
-and finally, down 2-1 in the 9th, the Cyclones tied the game and then loaded the bases for pinch-hitting lefty Nick Santomauro who hit one high off the wall to the opposite field and got mobbed by his exuberant teammates. i originally thought, as did everyone around us, that the ball had cleared the fence and that Santomauro had gotten credited for a single Robin Ventura style.
i also caught a t-shirt (the first thing i've ever caught at a game, i'm still waiting for that elusive foul ball) and cut my ankle against the seat doing so. i gave it to some kid, i'm sure it wasnt my size.
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