Friday night...a long line of cars on Wisconsin Ave...
...June just around the corner with the weather changing...the SeaDogs (RedSox) in town....fireworks after the game...a hot prospect on the mound... bunch of scouts behind home with radar guns...a big crowd (5400+)....plenty of hits and runs with a big long ball homer..and the Defs win 10-3. Now that's minor league baseball and if you live in southeastern Connecticut get here because this team is in first place and playing pretty good ball.
Mike McBryde was the star tonight going 3 for 5, with 4 runs scored, a double and his first homer of the season a three run shot to give him 4 RBIs in the game.
Giants fans will hate me, but Madison Bumgarner is pretty hittable. And as my seat mate, the Hondohurricane, pointed out tonight he fell behind on a lot of hitters tonight. Hit final line was 5 IP with 5 hits, two walks, 3Ks, a runnner picked off and a earned run. His record improves to 4-0 with a 0.78 ERA so hey it's not all bad. Sneaking a peek at the scouts's radar guns he was hitting 88-95 MPH.
Defs trailed in this game 1-0 but took the lead for good in the second on Bobby Felmy's single, Mike McBryde's RBI double and a Brock Bond RBI single for a 2-1 lead.
CT added another run in the fourth as McBryde singled and scored on Sharlon Schoop's RBI double to make it 3-1 Defenders. A word here about Schoop--he's been red hot the month of May batting .375 (21 for 56) with 7 doubles and 11 RBIs. His line tonight was 2 for 5 with a pair of RBIs.
Defenders broke it open in the fifth scoring five times. A walk to Bond, a bloop double to right by EME and a sac fly by Brett Pill (nice catch of a shallow fly ball that almost dropped in right field) made it 4-1 CT. Felmy walked and Schoop hit a hard single to plate EME to increase the lead to 5-1. McBryde then homered over everything in left to make it 8-1 CT.
Dan Griffin (two solid innings) Brooks McNiven, (making his first appearance in a couple of week) who gave up a couple of scratch runs ad Waldis Joaquin finished up the pitching for the Defenders.
Connecticut scored single runs in the 7th on a Jackson Williams RBI single and in the 8th on Schoop's second RBI single of the game to completed the 10-3 score.
Mike Mooney and Bobby Felmy each had a pair of hits tonight. Jackson Williams got charged with his 10th PB of the season on what should have been scored a WP.
Misc fan notes: Great to finally meet AR fan and his family tonight at the game. As always, thanks for the kind words about the blog.
Great to have a big crowd on hand, with various companies and non-profits having tables set up on the concourse, a buzz in the crowd, plenty of young people etc. and lots of folks wearing Red Sox gear.
Pics top to bottom: McBryde's 3 run HR, hot BoSox prospect 1B Lars Anderson, MadBum, BoSox pitching prospect Junichi Tazawa, and a traffic jam on Wisconsin Ave.
posted by greg8370 at 10:11 PM
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The pleasure was mine, Greg! It was terrific to meet the man behind the blog and the camera. Thanks again!
11:03 PM
dont hate you greg...thanks for being honest about madbaum
he isnt ready for the show
which is why sabean would be crazy to trade cain or sanchez right now
is hondo finally coming around to accepting that i was right about decker?
told my bro to take my nephew to the game on sunday...hope it happens
11:13 PM
Hey,
I work in the ticket office, and I can tell you that there were not 5400 people through that gate tonight. That may have been our number of total tickets sold, but I can tell you first-hand that crowd was closer to about 3500. Still a great crowd, though, for sure! Great to finally see some people come out to support the hometown team!
We are also expecting a big crowd on Sunday. Many thought that John Smoltz would be pitching for Portland (though it has since been announced he'll pitch for Single-A Greenville). Probably will be one of the busiest weekends in a while at Dodd!
Also, on a side note, great to talk to AR after the game near the clubhouse. I stand by my statement that he is a great guy, always taking the time to associate with fans.
--Jim
11:25 PM
There sure as Hell were more than 3500 people in the stands last night. Maybe you guys only sold 3500 tickets, and if that's the case you better close the gate on the right field side where the smokers congregate. It's always wide open.
Bacci, why do you think I'm anti Decker? And as I've said often recently, the difference in this team and previous teams, is these guys are hitting with RISP. That's probably 10% Decker and 90% better talent.
But i don't have any Decker issues.
8:43 AM
Hi JIm,
Welcome to the comments board. I got to tell it felt a lot more than 3500 last night, just downstairs alone. All the skyboxes had people in them and all of them were lit up except for two. I know you always throw in the number of season tickets into the count whether they show or not and that's about 800-900 easy.
And I think last night was the first time the other parking lot was being used.
But like you said it should be a good weekend up on the hill and I hope this carries thru the summer.
10:17 AM
Watching McBryde run the bases, he appears fairly athletic. I enjoyed watching him. He was also very quick with his hands inside the ball on the homerun.
5:50 PM
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