Out of Order (But Higher Up): Durham Bulls 7 – Indianapolis Indians 6, at Indy, June 23

This was an afternoon game I caught part of on my drive back to Moline from the Midwest League All-Star Game that had been played in Fort Wayne the previous night.  Victory Field is a nice stadium, but parking is a bit of a pain (I had to park at the Zoo and walk; I guess it would have been worse had it been raining, but in the heat it was no bargain either.)

It was rather hot that afternoon.

But, I can put up with such things when I snag foul balls.  This was only my second AAA game, but, thanks to even the seats behind home plate being rather empty, I magaged to get a foul before I had to scoot.

One other note: I’ll be adding photos from my digital cameras later, but these first seven (including the one above) were taken with my Canon AE-1 – meaning that they were shot on…

wait for it…

Film!  (Other camera info: Fuji 400 Film; I think all of these shots were with a Canon 100-300mm Zoom lens)

 

Out of Order: South Bend Silver Hawks 5 – Lake County Captains 2, at South Bend, Aug. 8

Well, the photos of this game were on my computer, so I though I’d go ahead and put these up.

This was my one journey to The Cove in 2010, and due to scheduling problems (mine), I didn’t get to stay flr all of the game.  But, here are the higlights of my pix:

 

Game 3 of the 2010 MWL West Championship Series: Clinton 4 – Kane County 1

First, though…

No, its not the star of one of the Super Bowl commercials from yesterday.  Its just my buddy Louise – and I snapped this shot of her a few hours before I drove up to Clinton on Sept. 13 to see the deciding Game 3 of the Mid West League Western Division Championship Series between the Lumberkings and the Kane County Cougars.  (Louise declined to come with me when I explained that it is Lumberkings, not Lumberpugs.)

This game was interesting in that it was the first time I’d ever been to a deciding game of a series where the team I was pulling for won.  Kane County got there by beating Quad Cities three days earlier (not that I was a homer and rooting for the River Bandits – even though I live across from them in Moline – but I had been hoping for a Clinton-Quad Cities series so I could see all of the games; I just wasn’t up for a drive to the Chicago suburbs), and my only other instances of seeing final games were Game 3 of the 1997 Division Series between the Braves and the Astros (sweep – and not by the Astros) and the final of the 2010 Women’s Big 10 Basketball Tournament which the Iowa Hawkeyes lost in the final seconds.

The highlight of this game was, of course, Mickey Wiswall’s home run (the swing and the score are represented amongst the pix below; at the Game 2 of the series with Lake County I presented him with prints of the entire sequence and he was really appreciative).  Sadly, the lighting wasn’t quite as good as it was for my pix of Rashun Dixon’s shot against the River Bandits that helped the Cougars get to Clinton (pix which, of course, will be forthcoming.)

For the time being, though:

Now, the series of pix of the Wiswall shot:

And now for the remainder of the game – concluding with a celebration on the mound after the final out.

 

After a Hiatus….

Well, I kinda got busy and stopped posting.

That doesn’t mean that I stopped going to games.  I made it to the Midwest League All-Star Game in Fort Wayne and to a few of the cities in the Eastern Division of the MWL.  Along the way I managed to hit a couple of AAA games and even another big league game before winding things up with game two of the MWL Championship Series between the Clinton Lumberkings and the Lake County Captains at Clinton.  I had committed beforehand to heading home after 6 innings or so; little could I have imagined that 6 innings would end up only being one third of the game.  (Sadly, thereafter, Clinton went out to the Cleveland suburbs and lost the series in five games to the Captains.)

My goal is to work backwards to where I unceremoniously left off in June by the time the 2011 season gets started – but meanwhile, here are a few shots from my last baseball game 0f 2010: