Last night
Ethan and Brett went to their first Minnesota Twins MLB game.
Ethan had a great time sitting in the upper stands, waling around the concourse, and watching the lady behind us throw her sunflower seeds on the ground.
We were able to watch the entire game and Ethan loved it..although he will tell you it was a little loud at times. We got some collector cups (wink wink scott) and they were handing out packets of baseball cards to the first 10,000 people.
We watched 3 home runs, the last one was a walk off home run by Justin Morneau. But the weirdest part was this double play that happened, I copied the explanation from the
MLB.com website:
A little trouble might be the biggest understatement of the night as the play turned into what can only be described as a real mess. With Crawford legging out what looked to be a possible triple, Devil Rays third base coach Tom Foley held up the stop sign for Zobrist at third, but Crawford, who hadn't looked up, continued running to third as well.
With the possibility of two runners at third base, Zobrist started to run home. But Twins right fielder Michael Cuddyer had already hustled to get the ball back into
the infield to second baseman Luis Castillo, who then threw it to catcher Joe Mauer. With the ball in hand, Mauer was able to catch Zobrist in a rundown to get the first out of the inning.
And that was just the start of strange things happening. Rather than remaining at third base, Crawford started running back to second, and Mauer was able to get the ball to shortstop Alexi Casilla before Crawford could tag the base. And what ended up was the not-so-typical 9-4-2-6 double play.
It was a great day and I'm very thankful that Ethan I were able to share this experience.
