Baseball Fireworks

While we are big Cleveland Indians fans, the local baseball team in the Hartford area is a Minnesota Twins AA league team, the New Britain Rock Cats. The past two years we celebrated Independence Day at the Indians ballpark. However, this year, the Tribe was playing in Cincinnati. So the next best thing was a twi-night double header at New Britain with pyrotechnics to follow.

The New Britain Stadium is a nice, minor league ballpark, where every seat is pretty darn good, especially for the money (see chart below). We bought reserved seats in section 204 (see above) but it was too sunny and hot on the first base side at 5 p.m. So after a half inning, I insisted we move to the general admission seats (Section 213) on the third base side (I like these better myself). So we watched the first game from there. It was a slug fest with the home team getting punished 11-3 by the Harrisburg (PA) Senators.

The second game started out promising for the Cats but they nearly duplicated the first game by losing 9 - 3. Fortunately, both games were only 7 innings. Nonetheless, it was pretty late by the time we got to the pyrotechnics. These were more roman candles than fireworks. Still, Richard enjoyed them and there were no big BOOMs.

By the time I dropped Richard back to Lynn and drove back to Stratford, it was after midnight.