Weather:
79 degrees, sunny.
Wind: 24
mph, R to L.
T: 2:40.
Att:
10,544 [another sellout at Bright House Field]
Umpires:
HP: Tom Hallion. 1B: Phil Cuzzi. 3B: Vic Carapazza.
Section
102, Row 10, Seat 2 (further down the RF line than Thursday)
Question –
why in Clearwater do they drag the infield after the second and fifth innings,
rather than the typical third and sixth?
My request
for better seventh-inning stretch music was not exactly honored – they did “Y.M.C.A.”
instead of “Cotton-Eyed Joe”. They did redeem themselves by putting on Pharrell
Williams’ “Happy” at the end of the seventh.
A flock of
seagulls (15 or so – the real thing rather than the musical variety) landed in
shallow center field just before the seventh inning, and basically hung around
for most of the game. Presumably all of the sitting room on the berm was
occupied by humans. ;-)
Given the
impotence of the Phils offense, the gulls ranked as one of the highlights of
the afternoon. There were also 5 hit batters, leading to a warning to both
benches in the top of the seventh. Will be interesting to see whether any ill
feelings carry over – the teams still play each other once more in Florida,
plus two more exhibition games in Philly right before the start of the regular
season.
Meanwhile,
the Bucs scored runs of each of the 3 Phils pitchers who will or might make the
team (O’Sullivan, Papelbon, Bastardo), with a Neil Walker homer in the seventh
finishing off the scoring. Two pitchers from the minor league camp, Mike
Nesseth and Kyle Simon, did retire the last 7 Pittsburgh batters of the
afternoon.
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