Jon Konrath (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} jkonrath) wrote,@ 2007-10-06 23:53:00 |
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Sweep! Sweep! Sweep!
Rockies sweep the Phillies in the NLDS
This is the most fucked up baseball game I've ever been to. It was a completely still night, and then right before the first inning, these freak wind bursts started up. The temperature plummeted, and everyone (including myself) was running to the gift stores to buy overpriced shirts to keep warm. Then, out of nowhere, the lights went out. And the game was a pitching battle, partially because of two good pitchers, and partially because a gale-force wind was blowing directly at home plate. If you sat still and just dropped the ball from your hand on home plate, it would be an 86 MPH fastball.
But most of all, the sellout crowd was going batshit insane for the entire game. At every pitch, 50,000 people were cheering and yelling and screaming. Once it got down to the final inning, they seriously had like 100 extra security people ring the field. When the last pitch was thrown, they drove an entire motorcade of police motorcycles and SWAT team trucks onto the field to prevent everyone from going total apeshit and climbing onto the field.
Next up, NLCS against the Diamondbacks. I have tickets for the second home game, which is the 15th. Sorry, Lou; sorry, Cubs fans - maybe next year.
Rockies sweep the Phillies in the NLDS
This is the most fucked up baseball game I've ever been to. It was a completely still night, and then right before the first inning, these freak wind bursts started up. The temperature plummeted, and everyone (including myself) was running to the gift stores to buy overpriced shirts to keep warm. Then, out of nowhere, the lights went out. And the game was a pitching battle, partially because of two good pitchers, and partially because a gale-force wind was blowing directly at home plate. If you sat still and just dropped the ball from your hand on home plate, it would be an 86 MPH fastball.
But most of all, the sellout crowd was going batshit insane for the entire game. At every pitch, 50,000 people were cheering and yelling and screaming. Once it got down to the final inning, they seriously had like 100 extra security people ring the field. When the last pitch was thrown, they drove an entire motorcade of police motorcycles and SWAT team trucks onto the field to prevent everyone from going total apeshit and climbing onto the field.
Next up, NLCS against the Diamondbacks. I have tickets for the second home game, which is the 15th. Sorry, Lou; sorry, Cubs fans - maybe next year.
