Friday On Deck Series Game
Last night I went to the Phillies on deck series game with my mom. We left around 4 and got there at maybe 4:35 the game started at 7:05 so I had a lot of time. I decided not to bring my camera because I didn't want to lug it around. I have a big camera. I should probably take on of the smaller ones that belong to the family. I had 2 ideal opportunities to snag homerun balls during batting practice. They were in the same exact place, and both times the ball was going right to the outer rail of the flower bed and both times the ball hit the inside of my glove while crushing my fingers into the rail (despite having a glove on) and the two people on my left hit my glove and the ball bounced out onto the field. (GRRRRR......) So I didn't get one ball during 2 hours of BP. I then went down to get autographs. I slide through to the front row. (I have gotten so good at that). But of course they were having a parade of 9000 boy and girl scouts around the field. So when Jason Donald tried to come sign right where I was. One of the stupid directors said that he couldn't walk through. So he just walked back to the dugout. Of course we were furious because he is the player getting paid millions of dollars he has more authority than that woman. So for the first time I had gotten to the ballpark as early as I could and I left BP and pregame without ball or autograph. The reason we had these tickets is our partial plan that we are splitting included these and the other two families couldn't go so we were stuck with them. Our seats are 131 (behind the visitors dugout) in a row way back. Since the owners hadn't claimed the aisle seat I moved over a few seats into it. Then of course the owners came. But since it was an exibition game there were quite a few aisle seats open farther up. So I moved to them. After the first inning Akinori Iwamura had made the final out and as he was running in. It was only me and another kid, and since he was a young small Rays fan I didn't reach for it so that he could have it. but the next inning I was right back down there and grabbed the ball as Matt Joyce threw the ball up.
The rest of the game I spent running back and forth from the phillies and rays dugouts and only got that one ball. As I let another little kid get one behind the rays dugout. I don't remember what inning it was, but during the t shirt gun thing I got the first one the phanatic shot I kinda just ran into one of the empty rows and reached my glove up and got it. It seemed quite easy. I got back to my seat and finally got all the duck tape and openned up the shirt.
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The rest of the game I spent running back and forth from the phillies and rays dugouts and only got that one ball. As I let another little kid get one behind the rays dugout. I don't remember what inning it was, but during the t shirt gun thing I got the first one the phanatic shot I kinda just ran into one of the empty rows and reached my glove up and got it. It seemed quite easy. I got back to my seat and finally got all the duck tape and openned up the shirt.
This was the BackThis was the front
