Tag: spring vacation
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Spring Vacation Day Nine – The Way Home
We woke up early (tried for 4:30AM, but it was really more like 5:00AM) and got the last of the things ready for the car. Four trips later, the car was loaded up, so we went to the hotel kitchen to get a bite to eat for the road and got started. The sun had…
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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 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…