PriorBlog

Yesterday Brother-in-law Matt and I went to the Red Sox Mariners game.  There was a lot of hype about the game because it was Daisuke Matsuzaka’s first outing at Fenway.  Plus, the Mariners having two Japanese guys in their lineup, including Ichiro, added yet another angle to the story.  Going into the game that’s what I wanted to see, Dice-K versus Ichiro.  The only problem was “going into the game.”  We reached Fenway at about 6:50 and didn’t get into our seats until about 7:20.  For all of the new additions to the park, it’d be nice if they could get some gate attendants and maybe another door somewhere, anywhere.  Missed the whole first half inning waiting in an absurd line.

It was Felix Hernandez pitching for the Mariners who stole the show though.  He had a no hitter going into the eighth which got broken up on a JD Drew seeing eye single.  That was the only hit the Sox would get.  Hernandez was in the mid 90’s in the bottom of the ninth.  After two starts this year he has not allowed a run.  It should also be noted that he is younger than Cole Hamels.

I was going to scan my scorecard for you, but then I thought about the amount of time it would take versus the amount of people who would look at it (5 minutes versus 0).  I like old scorecards though.  The new deal with scorecards is to log on to MLB.com after the game and see what you did wrong.  For example, last night I only had one error for the Sox on my card but the scoreboard showed two.  Went to gamecast and found out I missed Dustin Pedroia’s throwing error.  Scorecard corrected.