Day 138 – Near HR Catches

My cousin, his girlfriend, and roommate were all going to the game this afternoon so I was able to get a ride with them. In fact, I was going to be sitting with them since they had 4 tickets and one of their friends pulled out so I bought the extra ticket from them.

The tickets were in RF about 10 rows up. If any of you were watching the game on TV (or saw the highlights, I think you can still find it on MLB.com) you just may have saw me. The Jays lone run came via a Lyle Overbay HR that was only a couple feet away from me. My cousin’s roommate was beside me and he was within reach and ready to catch it when some guy from several seats down cut across this old couple and reached out with his glove to catch it.

That was the 2nd time I have just missed a HR ball in my life despite only single digit games where I have sat in the OF. In 1999, my Mom and I decided to take advantage of the cheap bleacher seats they had for 1 game at County Stadium (my Dad didn’t want to join us b/c the bleachers at County Stadium were just benches there was no back rest). There was no assigned seating for the game you just got general bleacher seats. We were in about the 5th row in LF. Most people were sitting two rows apart since there was plenty of space and it allowed you to stretch out your legs so the people behind us were two rows up. Jeff Cirillo hit a line drive that got out to us in like 2 secs and it went right over my head above my glove and was caught by one of the guys behind us. Had I stepped up onto the seats I probably would have caught it.

To try and save time going back across the border we went across the bridge and there was hardly any wait there. It just took a little more time getting to it from the ballpark.

We ran into a # of people my cousin knew at the game and we ended up going to one of their places once back in Windsor for a bonfire the rest of the night.

I had an early flight to BOS so I just stayed up and watched the Olympics until it was time to catch a shuttle.