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Archive for 25. June 2008
Roberts Milestone 1000 Hits
25. June 2008 by Orioles Fanatic.
The Orioles played the Cubs tonight at Wrigley Field. One cold November evening many years ago, I touched the outside of that park. It was the best I could do since it was the off-season. It was after a dinner date with a handsome stranger I met while on a business trip. I can’t tell you the exact sequence of events since there was wine at dinner, apparently a little too much of it, but I must have mentioned how much I longed to see a game there, or at the very least, the park itself. The restaurant was close to Wrigley Field and somehow me and the handsome man ended up outside of the stadium with me feeling up the exterior wall wishing that I wasn’t seeing it in the dark. I won’t say what else I did or didn’t see in the dark that night, but it was a fun time. (Just kidding!!)
Tonight was fun too, but in a very different way. Mostly fun. Here are the brief highlights. Roberts had his 1000th hit as a Oriole. For a brief time the Os were up 7-1. Guthrie pitched six and a half innings before things started to fall apart for real. Sherrill provided the characteristic finale, making us sweat it, loading the bases in the bottom of the ninth and then striking out three consecutive batters. When he struck out the last batter, I wanted to crawl through the television and give him a great big hug.
I’ll leave you with this thought. Though the Orioles are in fourth, by this time next week, we’ll have a better win percentage than most of the rest of the AL and NL. And if that’s not true, I’ll push a hockey puck from one end of the rink to the other at the next Skipjacks game. Or something to that effect.
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