What a baseball game

Last night was Family Fun night at the Suns ballpark. The post office was unveiling thier new "take me out to the ballgame" stamp. The postmaster threw out the first pitch. 88.1 was also sponsoring the Family Fun night, Mark Schultz was the special singer. We went last year and it was really good. But this year, the game was incredible. The first inning the Bears scored 3 runs and left 3 on base. I think everyone got a hit. The Suns scored 2 runs in the bottom of the inning. It went back and forth, but the Suns never got ahead. There was a really bad call on Ivan DeJesus junior. He was called out at the plate, it was clearly safe and blue called it out. He got mad about the call and threw his helmet. The umpire threw him out of the game. He was 4-4 and had a homerun. This was not good for the Suns, they were down 8-6. In the bottom of the 9th, the lead off batter got on base. The next batter hit a homerun. The score is now 8-8. The next batter is from Georgia. All the regular players had a song that they played when they came up to bat, his was "Don't Stop Beleiving". This batter watched strike three cross the plate the last at bat, so we all thought it was going to be extra innings. Unbeleivably, he hit a homerun and the Suns won the game. What was really ironic number of non Americans that were playing this all American sport. When the game ended 1/2 of the Bears team was hispanic. But the winning homeruns were hit by Americans.

Lets talk about the hispanics. There were 3 Venezuelans. The Bears had 2 and the Suns had 1. I didn't even know that Chavez let them play that sport, it being American and all. Puerto Rico, and Mexico were also represented. I don't know that I have ever heard of a Mexican baseball player either.

It was a really nice Family Night. I don't think I mentioned that ALL the family went.