Tag: athletics
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Spring Vacation Day Eight – Athletics vs Giants
Today was the last baseball game of the trip and the Athletics hosted the cross-bay rival Giants. The game wasn’t so great from the perspective of the A’s, except for the five innings thrown by Trevor Cahill. The only thing bad that happened to him was Travis Ishikawa belted the first of his two homeruns. …
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Spring Vacation Day Six – Athletics at Rangers
Today was the only ‘road trip’ of our games this week. We ate breakfast and hopped in the car for the hour drive up to Surprise, Arizona. Surprise Stadium is in the middle of the Surprise Recreation Campus, which includes practice fields, picnic grounds, a library, tennis courts, community pool and a water park. Both…
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Spring Vacation Day Four – Baseball and Hockey
Today was a long day. We got to Phoenix Muni early, almost too early. Parking was open, but the stadium wasn’t, so we went inside the shop to browse around. I bought myself another straw hat, since you can never have too many of them. When we finally got inside, we headed over near the…
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Spring Vacation Day Three – Dodgers at Athletics
Today was the first baseball game of the trip, with the A’s hosting the Dodgers split squad. After allowing the Dodgers to put up four runs in the second, they came back and scored nine in the third. They wanted to coast home, but the Dodgers put up four runs in the ninth to bring…
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Real Opening Day
My wife and I went to the real home opener for the A’s last night and watched what I hope is not an example of the kinds of games we’re going to see all season long. They lost the game 2-1 against the pitching of Daisuke Matsuzaka who was definately on his game. Frustrating rookiee…