Baseball Game

Ashton had been asking on and off all summer if we could go to a Bee's baseball game.  Well we finally made it on Monday night.  Good thing we did because they only had one other home game between now and when we are scheduled to move.  It had to have been the longest game in history, at least it felt that way. We were at the ball park for 4 hours...  It was a good game, and the Bee's won so that made it even more fun even if it was sooooo long.  We left the game at 10:30 after the bottom of the 10th inning.  We missed the fun ending in the bottom of the 11th, but all of us were too tired to stay any longer.  Abbie was a lucky, lucky girl at the game.  And she proved that being cute definitely helps... we were sitting on the front row on the first base side (which is the Bee's side) pretty much right behind the bullpen.  We got to watch the starting pitcher warm up and all of the other relief pitchers were sitting around talking.  One particular pitcher walked over while Abbie was kinda leaning over the railing and smiled at her and said "hi"  when she smiled back he grinned at her again and said "you are a cutie."  After most of the pre-game stuff was over he came back and handed her a baseball.  She took it while being really shy, but then she thought that she was way cool with her baseball.

During the 2nd or 3rd inning a foul ball was hit as a grounder down the first base line.  A different relief pitcher went and retrieved the ball after it went back into the field.  As he came back towards the bull pen everyone was cheering for him to throw the ball into the stands for someone, Ashton really wanted the ball and I said "ask him for it" loud enough that he heard me and looked at us.  Then he handed the ball to Abbie, again.  Abbie ended up with two baseballs from the game.  I know that I have never been lucky enough to get a ball from a game and Abbie ended up with two.

As you can see, she really thought she was hot stuff with two baseballs.  We did have a few fights over the balls during the game, but she was pretty good at sharing.  Ashton felt pretty bad after not getting a ball, but at least Abbie shared with him, at least a little.  Abbie's friend ended up being Michael Kohn and he pitched the 9th and 10th innings for the Bee's and did a really good job.  I just wish that I had taken my camera but all I had was my phone.