Day-Night Doubleheader

Ya gotta make your own day-night doubleheader nowaday.

Went to Binghamton for the afternoon game, good to be back home at the park. Only two new players to learn. (This time of year, with promotions and demotions and trades and injuries, sometimes there's only once guy in the lineup I've ever seen before.) Corey Ragsdale SS and Lastings Milledge OF

Milledge has been ballyhooed as a great prospect, and with the exception of David Wright last year, most prospects fall well short of their hype, some of them hopelessly so. But if Sunday's game is any indication of Milledge's abilities, he could be some ballplayer. At the plate, he went 3-for-4 and scored 2 runs, in centerfield he made a couple WebGem plays. The word from the folks in Box 14 was that in his first game, he went 0-fer, striking out three times, but has been 4-for-5 and 3-for-4 in the next two games.

As for the game itself, starter Orlando Roman pitched well, and made two amazing pick offs, one at first and the other at second, the throw so quick the runner was out before we realized Roman was making a move. The game was not nearly as close as the 4-3 score would seem to indicate when he was relieved after seven strong innings, but Luz Portobanco gave up two runs in each of his two innings, B-Mets lose 7-4.


Back to Syracuse for the night game, a bunch of the folks from Box 14, their friends and families, taking in their one Norfolk game of the season. It was great to see the guys one more time and it was great to cheer for them, the visitors, in the midst of a large group of people rooting for them instead of being a lone voice. There had been more vocal support of the Tides throughout the entire series than there normally is for the visiting team, a few other B-Mets fans scattered throughout the stands and NY Mets fans as well, but the whole section cheering at once was fun.