4-8-11 PNC Park
Today was cold and rainy, and there was no chance for batting practice.
Despite the rain, I went anyway.
Not much was going on.
Some Rockies came out to throw along the right field line. 
Once the rest of the stadium opened, I went over and snagged my first ball of the day from Franklin Morales. I flashed him my glove after he had finished tossing, and he threw me ball #1.
Ball #2 came from Matt Reynolds. I asked for the ball and he tossed me his warm up ball as he was coming off of the field.
Upon inspecting them, I noticed that they were both commemorative baseballs.
Check it out:
The balls were from the Rockies’ new Spring Training home.
There was no more action until game time. The Pirates didn’t even come out to throw.
Here’s a few pictures from the game: Carlos Gonzalez, the Rockies best player:
The crowd, where most of the seats were $1 (you can tell the sections that weren’t a dollar)
Ross Ohlendorf, before exiting the game with a sore shoulder:
Amy and I, who were pretty cold:
The poster given away to all fans:
The shirt given away to all fans:
The Chuck Tanner jersey, to me from a distance looks like an Oakland Athletics Jersey, it makes the 7 appear green since it is surrounded by green. The Pirates should’ve put a black background box around the jersey.
Amy and I left in the 5th inning. The game went 14 innings, and the Pirates won, thanks to 11 1/3 scoreless innings from our bullpen.
Today’s baseballs:
Sweet spots:
STATISTICS:
Season: 24 balls (8 hit, 6 thrown, 7 device, 3 found)
Games: 4 games
Average: 6.00 balls per game
Career: 1,146 balls
Attendance: 29,129
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Erik-
Just wondering where we should report out weekly numbers.
Brandon Nedoma
Erik,
First of all, congratulations on the big news. Its awesome that you’re gonna get to be a dad. Second, I’m very happy to see that the Salt River Fields Commemorative Baseballs are showing up during Rockies BP because I am going to the Mets Rockies game next week. Lastly, for the BHL, will you get our stats from mygameballs.com? Or should we post them somewhere? Let me know.
-Will
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