This collection of entries is from July 27, 2003.
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The drive to "The Cell" was quick, but dark. Dark, low-hanging clouds everywhere. The Dan Ryan looked wet. We got to the park, and forgot that it was a Willy Wonka Kid's Day, so even though we got there early, we had to park in Lot F (at least it's not Lot L). The park looked weird. It's noon, it's dark, and the lights aren't on. We walked around looking for emergency rain ponchos just in case we ran into some weather. The autograph sessions were over, when the rain started. Then it came down HARD. We had fled up the section to sit underneath the Club Level overhang, waiting for te game to start. There was a 36 minute delay, but the game started. The temperature dropped from about 83 degrees to 69 degrees and the wind was gusting up to 31 mph. Bartolo Colon was like the way I saw him on Tuesday. Rocco Baldelli had a solo homer in the first and Colon didn't throw a hit for the next 18 batters. He had 8 strikeouts and no walks. Offensively, the team was just the way I wanted to see them. I just wished we had some of these runs yesterday. We had home runs by Carlos Lee, Frank Thomas, and Aaron Rowand. Tony Graffanino had a brain fart in the fifth when we was playing 2nd - in a double play attempt he sailed his throw into the stands along the 1st base line. Colon took the mound in the 9th, and for some reason, Jerry Manuel pulled him before he could pitch. Jerry got BOOOED. Big Time. The crowd obviously wanted Bartolo to get a complete game. I mean he had a 3-hit, one run game, let him have the whole game. But Kelly Wunsch came in and gave up a hit, but had a strikeout. He hadn't played in a while and I totally agree with getting him some quality time. You know, the bullpen was kind of depleted, so this wasn't a bad move. I mean, some of the guys in the pen I wouldn't trust anyway. Odd coincidence in the game - Jose Valentin played short and batted 8th, while his brother Javier Valentin was the catcher and batted 8th.
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