Memorial Day ballgame

This weekend finally arrived! Early in April I bought 5 tickets to the Seattle Mariner's vs. Boston Red Sox, and we've been waiting for it to arrive. We even played tourist early in the day and took the boys up to the top of the space needle, something I hadn't done in 11 years of living in the Pacific Northwest...

You've seen the Mastercard commercials about the cost of a major league game, and the "priceless" line at the end of it. Well, I blew the commerical out of the water on total costs for the trip, but I can still say it was priceless. The boys sure had a good time, and Ichiro put on a show for us. If you didn't catch it on sportscenter that night, he made a spectacular catch in centerfield that saved us a couple of Boston runs.

I would guess that there were at least 40% Red Sox fans at Safeco field that night. It truly is "Red Sox Nation". They were so loud, that if you weren't paying attention, you couldn't tell which team had done something because the cheers were so loud.

It was a pitcher's duel until the 4th, when we got to see "Big papi" David Ortiz hit a home run off of Felix Hernandez. We answered in the 6th and knotted it up 1-1.

Then came the fateful 8th inning. If only we had pulled Felix before the inning started. Things got ugly quick, including walking in a run and waiting for a ball to go foul down the 3rd base line, which never went foul...it died in the grass, allowing all runners to advance. Arghhh!!!!

We did score two more runs in the bottom of the ninth, making it interesting. It was a great game, and we are looking forward to going back later this summer or in the fall.