Take me out to the ballpark!

Baseball. An American Past Time.

I grew up watching baseball with my dad. Our family shared season tickets with some family friends to the Florida Marlins for several years after the formation of the Marlins as an expansion team in 1993. Since we have lived in Texas, we have been to a handful of Texas Rangers games. I have always kept up with baseball, well as much as a girl can. I am no expert though. :)

This year we went to a Ranger's game for Father's Day/Mom's birthday weekend. They lost miserably 5-14 to the Mets. Ballpark snacks are always a must, for our family its peanuts! It was a fun hot game, but would have been much better with a win!

 S and T!

Dad and I

Dad put his name in the raffle for post season tickets and he had Mom and I put our names in the raffle too. We thought that maybe one of us would be picked once for a chance to buy tickets for a game of the postseason. Dad's name was picked for 2 games in the American League Division Series AND 2 games for the American League Championship Series. It ended up that only dad only went to the first game of each series he was offered tickets for because the Rangers won the series without the other games.

The first game was the very first game of this year's postseason against the Tampa Bay Devilrays. It was a Friday afternoon game, so I drove up from Galveston after my morning class. I think the Rangers thought this game was a practice game... they lost 0-9. Our seats were in the upper deck in left field + late afternoon = sun in our eyes and very hot = I got a hat.

My new hat!

The ALCS game that the rest of my family went to, I couldn't go because of class, was the record breaking game with Nelson Cruz hitting a walk-off grand slam in the 11th inning! I was jealous, but glad that they were there for such an exciting game.

Obviously the Rangers have won way more games this year than they lost because as I am writing this the Rangers are up in Game 6 of the World Series. Go Rangers!