METS VS NATIONALS 9/19/09

This game was extremelly last minute, and unexpected. There are no pictures, and its just a quick summary. I didn't think I would even make it to the gates on time. It was a saturday. I was just going for bp, or so I thought as my mom did errands. I got on line with ten minutes to spare, and it was so empty, I was able to be first on line. The mets took no bp, and the nationals only took 20 minutes of it, which felt like 20 seconds.

Ball #1- Thrown to by Mike Mcdougal down the line after he finished throwing with Jason Bergmann. A regular. I later gave this one away.

Ball #2- Thrown to by Jason Bergmann in the LF seats during the very short bp. Training. I later gave this one away too.

Ball #3- Not expecting it to end so fast, I was unable to get to the dugout before they came off. I was pissed, but since it was so empty I was able to run in time to get coach Jose Martinez to throw me a training ball.

Ball #4- Garret Mock quickly threw with some unathletic dude. I got Mock to throw me a pretty new regular baseball.

Ball#5- Sitting on the farther side towards 3B behind the Nationals dugout, I ran across to the other section closer to homeplate. I was able to get Marquis Grissom to throw me the infield warmup ball. That was the bottom of the first inning. I thought I was only staying for bp, but I ended up staying the whole game.

Ball #6- In the middle of the game, Wilson Valdez grounded into a double play. 2B Pete Orr had turned it, and when Adam Dunn caught the throw, he threw it back over to him. He ran in with the other infielders, and I got him to throw me the ball over about 15 little kids. These kids were insane. It was pretty empty it seemed, but all these little kids would pop out of no where, at the end of every inning. It was crazy. No one complained however, when I got that ball, because they had seen me give another ball to a little kid with his dad, at his first ever game. I ended up becoming very friendly with an usher I hadnt always gotten along with. It was a rubbed up Citi Field gamer.

Ball #7- I went to the umps tunnell, since the Nationals had lost, and got home plate ump Mark Wegner to give me a rubbed up gamer.

Pretty good day for barely any bp.

STATS:

Game: 7 BASEBALLS
Season: 110 BASEBALLS

Life: 138 BASEBALLS