10/8/2016 San Francisco Giants 2, Chicago Cubs 5

Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL

NLDS Game 2

The poetry of baseball is often homely when its rhythm is disturbed by the absence of pitchers in the batting order (as they SHOULD be)...case in point:

CHC Leads the Series 2-0

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4/16/2016 Toledo Mud Hens 8, Louisville Bats 6

Louisville Slugger Field, Louisville, KY

Game 3 of 4

My friends Joel and Sheila in town to celebrate Joel's birthday...the most late-June weather day we've had in mid-April for quite some time, perfect to beers and based ball! 

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Toledo start Lucas Harrell was cited in the roster as wearing number 34...however, he was wearing number 18...I thought I had taken a photo of this, but apparently I didn't.

LOU LHP John Lamb, on rehab assignment, faces former Met of infamy, Jordany Valdespin

Valedspin grounds out, LOU 3B Jermaine Curtis to 1B Steve Selsky

LOU RHP Layne Somsen pitches to TOL C Drew Longley

It's always GREAT to see some of my Australian Baseball League favorites pitching here...tonight I saw RHP Warwick Saupold!

We played the Mystery Rookie Card game, but because I was so caught up in the night's festivities, I forgot about the cards until after I got home. It's such a drag getting old. 

I picked the infamous bat-licking Jose Constanza. I love telling the story, but the odd thing is the past few times I've seen him play here, I didn't catch him doing it...the first few times he was here, he was certainly doing it. ICYMI, Jose has the curious distinction of having been known to lick his bat after fouling off a pitch. I've seen it with my own eyes, here at LSF and on TV as well...I wrote about this a couple of years ago. Jose hasn't been a Brave for a couple of years, fact of the matter is he played for Louisville and Durham in the IL last season (with a brief stint for the independent league York Revolution in between), and is currently an unsigned free agent, playing for the Mexican League Leones de Yucatan.

Joel and I were talking about Travis Wood today; figures that he'd pick this (without really knowing it).

Official Program and Scorecard

Ticket #ClubLevelAccess

Bat Chat and Gameday Stats

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7/6/11 Columbus Clippers 2, Louisville Bats 3

Louisville Slugger Field, Louisville, KY
Game 3 of 3


This is Jeremy Hermida. He is, indeed, very good at baseball.



With today’s pitching matchup between Bats RHP Travis Wood and Clippers RHP Justin Germano, the expected occurs…a solid start from both, with Germano really showing his upper hand with 6IP on 2 hit shut-out ball, 7 punchouts and Wood faring not as well, but still holding on after 7 exhausting innings of work and the Bats down 2-0.

Travis Wood on the mound…






Justin Germano



KIPNIS!!! I was just as excited to see Jason Kipnis in the lineup for the Clippers tonight (having not been in the lineup 2 days ago) as I was to be at this game tonight.



KIPNIS: The best batting stance in baseball!!




Kipnis reaches on a single in the 6th, with Todd Frazier manning 1B, here’s a nice segue for the often-obligatory Todd Frazier photo sequence…


Here Todd is manning 1B, this first shot he’s holding Luis Valbuena…




Todd Frazier at bat…







The Bats were looking to sweep the IL stud Columbus team at home; heading into the bottom of the 9th things were starting to look shaky.

The call to the bullpen in Minor League Baseball, even moreso than in most MLB contests, is the supreme strategic crapshoot. Anybody can have an off day, today that ‘off’ belonged to Clippers RHP Zach Putnam. After holding the Bats down to 1 hit, 2 walks, and 3 strikeouts in the 8th, the hit parade for the Bats started with Dave Sappelt’s leadoff single and continued with Yonder Alonso’s crushing 2B to LF. Devin Mesoraco walks, and here comes Jeremy Hermida…

The bases are loaded for Hermida…


Hmmm, there’s a meeting on the mound…


Putnam fires, and Hermida launches a grounder up the middle for a 2-RBI double!


The game is now tied at 2-2, Danny Dorn is intentionally walked and Putnam gets the green light to pitch to Todd “Put the Ball in Play” Frazier, with 3 on and nobody out…


Todd flies out to deep right for a Sacrifice that allows Mesoraco to score from 2B and in the second game in 3 days, Todd Frazier walks off in uncanny fashion…tonight, with a SAC fly! Another truly exciting game, ending in an equally thrilling fashion, as the Bats sweep the Clippers.

UPDATE: See this post for the story of how I got this scoresheet signed by Jason Kipnis and Mike Costanzo. Still waiting for Todd Frazier to sign this one.




Official Scorecard and Bat Chat: