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Day 1: Fun in the Sun
We started the morning off in Goodyear at the Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds training facility. The Indian’s and Red’s have a great facility and pretty good access as well.
Jared and I
We showed up around 8:30 since the gates open at 9:00 to get into the facility. We stopped at the Indians first because former Rockies player Jason Giambi was at camp with them. The Indians team has changed and it seems like it is going to be a good team. Some of the players they acquired this off season were Nick Swisher, Jason Giambi, and Drew Stubbs. Hopefully all will be able to produce and they have a decent team. Not only did they pick up players they got a new manager… Terry Francona. He was a former manager of the ’04 & ’07 World Series Boston Red Sox. It will be interesting where he takes this team. Good Luck to them.
Any who we saw G-man and he came back and signed for all of us. He signed my 2012 team bat along with 8 cards… YES 8 cards. He was amazing taking the time to talk to us and wish us the best and us wishing him the same thing. All the best to Jason and we hope to see him again one day. Michael Brantley, Drew Stubbs, and Mike Aviles also signed a card for me.
After the Indian’s were done we walked over to the Reds camp to see who we could get.
There camp was set up the same and we did not get anything. I did however talk to a man on the other side of the fence while they were hitting batting practice. Turns out it was Ellis Burks! He is coming back by the way on July 28th for his bobble head giveaway day!
Ellis Burks
After the Red’s were done hitting BP we headed inside to see what graphs we could get. The game we went to was the Oakland Athletics @ Cincinnati Reds. We decided to stand on the reds side and got a few autographs.
Brandon Phillips and I
Thanks to Jared’s help I ended up getting 2 Mat Latos cards, 2 Sean Marshall cards, 1 Brandon Phillips card and photo, and 2 Ellis Burks cards. We stayed through the 7th inning then headed to Scottsdale to see the Rockies @ Giants.
View from my seat at the Oak @ Reds game
Mariano with Jason Giambi’s Cle nameplate
Once we got to the game Jared and I headed down to the wall to see what we could get. The guys were just getting there so we talked to them as they walked by. Most o the players said hey and that they would be back out to sign. A few minutes later Tanya showed up (She had just drove in from CO) and hung out on the wall with us.
Michael Cuddyer taking his time signing
The auto graphs that I got that night ended up being:
Charlie Culberson: 2012 Team Bat
Chris “Nelly” Nelson: 2013 Team Helmet
Dante Bichette: 2013 Team Helmet
Jerry Weinstein: 2013 Team Helmet
Rex Brothers: 2013 Team Helmet
Charlie Blackmon: 2013 Team Helmet
Michael Cuddyer: 2013 Team Helmet
Jim Wright: 2013 Team Helmet
Josh Rutledge: Team Helmet
Todd Helton: Lithogram
Carlos Gonzalez: Lithogram
View from Rockies @ Giants game
Jared, Mariano, and Jared
Jared, Me, Tanya, and Mariano
The Rockies won this game 10 to 4 over the Giants.
These guys were Colorado fans that took our picture and talked with them about the team for a few minutes. Here is your shout out guys!
Day 1 autographs
All in all it was a great first day of Spring Training! That is all I have for now. Watch out for Day 2 which is coming soon to a computer near you!
New shirt thanks to Rachel
I’m Blake St Babe and this is The Take: From Goodyear and Scottsdale in AZ!
McBride Debut in Loss to Giants
8/4/2012
Giants @ Rockies Game 2
This was another early afternoon at the ballpark. I went to the game with my parents and my little cousin which was really fun. WE went down early for batting practice but walked away with no balls, yet again. This was the third game in a row that I missed out on baseballs which is really starting to hurt me in the fact that I’m running out of baseballs for autographs.
JP signing
After BP we headed over to the wall to get some autographs. I had my cousin with me so I tried to get her as many autographs as possible. She did end up getting Jonny Herrera and Josh Rutledge but we will slowly have to work on her ball and try to get more autographs.
This was the MLB debut for Matt McBride and so I was trying to get his autographs but didn’t end up getting him.
Matt McBride MLB Debut
We headed up to our seats and watched the game. It was a shaky start for Francis who gave up 2 runs right away but settled down and sadly he only lasted 3 and 2/3rd innings and gave up 6 runs.
Francis 1st pitch
Josh Roenicke came in and pitched 3 and 1/3rd scoreless innings which has been great because he has been solid on most of his outings.
The Rockies bats started to come alive in the 6th inning when Josh Rutledge homered giving the Rockies their first run of the night. In the 7th McBride doubled which gave the Rockies another run and Jonny Herrera singled as the next batter scoring McBride.
Mat McBride 1st career hit
Josh Roenicke
Josh Rutledge Homerun
The rest of the game was a complete mess and the Giants took advantage of the Rockies pitching and dominated us. The Rockies did end up scoring 3 more runs but compared to there 11 it wasn’t enough.
JP
Matt McBride did have a good Debut going 2/4 with 1 RBI and 1 run scored. To me that was a decent debut! Good luck the rest of the season Matt!
Matt McBride 1st career RBI
My cousin took charge of the camera and so I have to give some of the credit to her for some of these. It was very tough tonight watching the pitching staff fall apart yet again but in the back of my mind I ask myself how much I can handle and take the rest of the season. Either way I will still be there supporting my team and go through the pain just like players.
The Giants take Game 2, 11-6, over the Rockies.
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Not Sure What to Name This One
8/3/12
Giants @ Rockies
This is going to be one of the shortest post that I’m going to have. It was just a bad day in general. I showed up early to get graphs and didn’t get any autographs, no balls from BP, and the Rockies got whipped.
Also ended up meeting Jared from Rox Walk Off!
During BP the Rockies hit all around me and same with the Giants. This was the second game that I was shut out of BP balls, which sucked but what are you going to do.
I headed over to get graphs with EB but standing in the second row I didn’t get any. The players to sign were Jordan Pacheco, Josh Rutledge, Todd Helton, Tyler Colvin, and DJ LaMahieu. I did however get Dinger on my team bat which was awesome… because it’s not a team bat without the mascot!
Once the game began I realized that I didn’t have my camera and knew that with the air kind of muggy that my phone would not take good pictures.
It was good to see that we got some runs on the board late in the game but the next inning it didn’t matter. Rosario has come through the last couple of games to get us some runs and he hit a 2 run homerun last night that was hit hard and fast! It seriously was a line shot to left field!
I’m not going to go into much detail because you probably already know that the Rockies got spanked with a final score of 16-4.
I will be at the rest of the game this weekend and hopefully I get to see a win. If you see me around Coors don’t forget to say hey! I saw Cathy last night and helped get her kids some autographs and so I hope that they had a good time!
Don’t forget to pick up the Rockies magazine if you are at the game this month and look at my article!
I’m Blake St Babe and this is The Take: From 20th and Blake
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Also if you get a chance and want to know more about this game check out the other 2 Rockies Bloggers
Rox Addict’s Blog: http://roxaddict.mlblogs.com
Rockpile Ranter’s blog: http://baseballsnatcher.mlblogs.com
Rox Walk Off page: www.roxwalkoff.com
