21 : 435 : 10 : 6
I try to avoid Sunday afternoon games whenever possible. Usually it means making a quick trip to Sunday School, then jumping ship for downtown. However this time, I had the opportunity to join Rose at her new digs without missing the morning service.
On the walk back to the car, Violet found us, wearing a bubble gum pink dress, her blonde hair pulled back in a ponytail.
“Where’s the little dude?” she wanted to know right away.
She was a little disappointed when she learned that we weren’t, in fact, going to be attending her church every Sunday. But I assured her that Yali would be around at school with me during the week.
Rose and I hit Arby’s on the way back to her apartment where Carrie-Bri met me on the way to the game. It was one of those rare Sundays where the flock was scattered between Oktoberfest (Joe and Jaya), the Botanical Gardens (my boys with Gloria), the game, etc., while Mom and Dad had Uncle Clarence and Aunt Tuuli over to catch up after the cross-cultural family wedding Friday night at a winery in Defiance.
Anyway, it was a … weird game. The fans had amassed themselves inside the stadium, popping at the seams, for the final regular season home game. Ready to watch Trevor Rosenthal make franchise history by collecting his 48th save of the season.
Didn’t go as planned.
After surrendering a 9th inning grand slam, the Brewers managed to score a total of 7 runs in that same inning alone, winning the game in front of a flustered crowd. A crowd I quickly labeled “stupid” to Jacob in my next text message when they began booing our pitchers for their costly errors. Therefore I might have also yelled at the section next to me to shut up. Unacceptable.
Carrie-Bri and I vented our frustration on podcast Episode 75 after browsing through the box of fat Chinese cookies our new cousin had brought from her home country for the wedding. So we now have three foreign nations represented in the Snicketts family: Guatemala, Colombia, and China.
CARDINALS:
St. Louis: 4-8 loss against Brewers; Rosey gives up grand slam in 9th.
3 games up on Pittsburgh: 98 and 58; 6 games remaining.
Magic Number: 4.