TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME

Last month Lou won two tickets to a Sacramento River Cats game at his Airport Volunteer Appreciation Event. The River Cats are the AAA farm club for the San Francisco Giants - a new affiliation this year. The tickets were for today & were in the fourth row just to the left of home plate....great seats!

Raley Field is a great little ballpark in West Sacramento. We've attended several games there over the years & will likely see a lot more now that the Giants AAA club plays there.

My favorite Giant's player, Hunter Pence, has been recovering from a broken arm suffered early in spring training. As the date for our free game approached, it was looking more & more probable that Hunter would play in this game as part of his rehab. As luck would have it, he did....& I was ecstatic! 

Our seats were behind the netting that protects fans from foul balls which made it tough to get good photos. The camera wasn't always sure what to focus on. Here is Hunter Pence (he's #8 on the Giants, but #9 here) at the plate. You can see the ball at the middle left of the picture.

The first five players in the line up were on the Giants roster at some time last year. This is Adam Duvall at bat with Pence on first after a walk.

Another popular Giant, Travis Ishikawa, was rehabbing a back injury with the River Cats, too. Both he & Pence played the whole game & will hopefully be back with the Giants helping them win soon.

Hunter Pence got his first hit as a River Cat & scored two runs today. He was on deck when Juan Perez knocked in Ehire Adrianza (two more Giants) to score the winning run in the ninth inning.

The River Cats celebrating the 5-4 win after Perez's "walk off" double that scored the winning run! It was such a fun game to watch & I loved seeing my favorite player up close & personal.

Of course, I joined half the people there by wearing my Hunter Pence jersey while Lou had on his Buster Posey. He had the creative idea to have the woman behind us take a photo of our jerseys while we watched the game. Love it!