4/16/13
What a wonderful way to spend a day watching baseball, unless you are in Colorado and sitting in 30 degree weather. It was a very cold and snowy day and we thought that after the blizzard the day before we were not going to get one game in.
Most of the morning we kept up to the hour with updates from twitter and I stayed in contact with Rox Addict about game times and if they were going to play. Sure enough at about 9 am they had the front office, owners, coaches, and TV personal out on the field shoveling.
Jon and Mariano
1st game which was a makeup of the game on 4/15 was suppose to start at 1:10 but kept getting delayed and first pitch was finally thrown at 3 pm. I showed up in the middle of the first inning right before the Rockies were up to bat.
Myself and Rox Addict
Man it was FREEZING! The wind was coming off the field and was blowing right towards us, which was very unpleasant.
The Rockies gave up 2 runs in the first inning but they ended up getting 1 of those runs back in the 2nd inning and 1 in the 3rd inning. So going into the top of the forth we were tied at 2.
In the top of the 4th and 5th the Mets scored 1 each and the Rockies came back and scored 3 in the bottom of the 5th and another in the 6th making the score 4-5. The Mets did not score anymore runs in this game but the Rockies put a few more on the board in the bottom of the 8th with 2. Final score of game one was 4-8 Rockies on top.
David Wright’s 2nd HR
They had only a 30ish minute break between games so Rox Addict, Jersey Geoff, and I went up to the Game Used booth and I picked up my Opening Day nameplate.
By the time we got back over to the first-base side some of the guys had changed into their throwback uniforms and were warming up on the field.
I ended up getting JP (only thing that got signed) and Nelly ended up signing but I didn’t have anything for him so just said hey.
The game started at 6:45 which is only 5 minutes after the original start time.
Old school scoreboard
On the mound for game 2 was Francis. He was very shaky and by the 5th inning the Rockies were down 8-6.
The Rockies slowly crawled back in the game in the 8th inning with scoring 2 runs, making the score 8-8 tying the game up.
Both wore throwback jerseys
It was freezing and all I wanted to do was go home. After the end of the ninth we went onto the 10th were the Rockies ended up hitting a walk off single to right field, which scored Carlos Gonzalez and put the Rockies ahead to win the game. The best part was the fact that they ended up celebrating right down the first baseline right in front of us. As soon as the game was over I headed straight to the car and took off my wet socks and shoes and headed home. It was a VERY VERY long and cold day but well worth it watching the Rockies beat the Mets twice.
This is it for this game! Keep any eye out for the 4/18 day game against the Mets. I’m about to head out to the Rockies VS Diamondbacks, but if you see me around Coors make sure you say hey!
I’m Blake St Babe and this is The Take: From 20th and Blake
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