Well today we went to our first Spring Training game of 2008 - Great!!Red Sox vs. the Minnesota Twins at the Hammond Stadium. A very nice day; partly cloudy with the temperature in the mid 70's; it was 42 and rain in Boston, and 37 in Minnesota. Being in Fort Myres - "priceless"!!!!
We arrived about an hour before the game and they parked us in center field in one of the practice fields.
The Twins were just ending some practice and drills and the grounds crew started the transformation from a field to a baseball diamond.
Add some lines.
And some bases
and some players;
Now we have a baseball diamond!
Cla Buckholtz started pitching for the Sox. He did good into the 4'th inning. He gave up 2 runs and a base on balls - that was enough for today. He left the game with the Sox ahead 3 to 2.
The Sox had a number of base runners and the score ended up at 12 to 7 Sox!!!
Don't let that "7" in the Twins 5'th inning confuse you; that is a scoreboard problem; they only scored 1 run and we have the score card to prove it.
Tomorrow we see the Sox play at home, City of Palms park.
March 13 at City of Palms park
The Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays played to a 3 - 3 tie in 10 innings. Not as much hitting from the Sox today. Colon pitched the first 2 innings; for his first outing of the season he was not too bad.
