...just bangin' out with the Portland Sea Dogs on an absolutely gorgeous summer evening in August. Accompanied as well by my adult son Jacob, and the out-going treasurer of my church, who is selling his business here and moving to Belize to do the bookkeeping for his step-son's various business enterprises, and to sail a little in the Caribbean in what he hopes will be his ample free time.
Once and Future Red Sox pitcher Clay Bucholz had the start, on what was also "Clay Bucholz No Hitter Commemorative Bobblehead Night" -- but we didn't get there in time to get a bobblehead ourselves, and had to settle instead for watching an OK outing by the real thing. Clay had a hard time getting his fastball over early, and had one really tough inning where they touched him for three runs...but at other times he had both the fast ball and the change up working really well, and you could appreciate the live ballplayer who inspired the bobblehead.
His teammates played some fairly decent defense behind him too, including a very pretty tag 'em out throw 'em out double play on a ground ball hit to the third baseman, who slapped the leather on a baserunner (who had made the minor league mistake of running on a ground ball hit in front of him) before firing a rocket across the diamond to catch the batter by a step. The other side of the infield didn't fare so well though. Between the two of them the second basemen made FIVE errors; some of that has got to be attributable to the groundskeeping!
Bucholz left the game with a one run lead before the seventh inning stretch, but his relief quickly gave up a two run homer leaving the Sea Dogs another game back in the loss column instead of with a big "W," and the starting pitcher himself with no decision. And after all that hard work too!
Not that I really cared. Win or lose, it was still a great night out for me....
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