This collection of entries is from June 05, 2005.
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Seems like every time I write about going to a baseball game, I'm complaining about the weather. Guess what? Yes, I'm complaining again. It's like I'm never satisfied. Today it's because it's sunny, upper 80's (normally, I wouldn't complain about that one iota) but excessive humidity. Oppressive humidity. The kind that sucks the breath, and yea, even the life out of you. My body doesn't tolerate this mix very well at all. Walking up the stairs to the concourse from our seats leaves me light-headed and weak-kneed. The high humidity - high temperature in front of a cold front coming through is stirring-up the atmosphere. Though it never really "rained" at the park, there were tornado warnings south of us.
We were hoping that Mark Buehrle would have one of his usual quick games. Yes, that would make everything right.
Wrong. He gave up 3 runs over 6 and a third. The game got real sluggish (maybe it was just me getting sluggish). Anyway, Tadahito Iguchi - after absolutely screwing-up a double play possibility in the 4th by touching 2nd and running-off the field, only to have made Out Number 2 and not 3 to end the inning - hit a 2-run homer in the 7th and tied the game. Considering the double-overtime last night, and the fact that Carol hasn't felt good since Thursday, and I was feeling funky from the heat, we left in the 8th. The game went 12 innings and we lost, thank you normally solid Dustin Hermanson, walking 2 and getting a throwing error to let the winning run in.
Hey - Frank Thomas FINALLY got productive with his first home run in the 10th. It didn't help - that just tied it up again (we were down one at the time).
We still left 11 on base.
(Boxscore)
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