I’m a little bit behind, so bear with me. On June 6th, Michelle joined me for a great game of baseball. We actually took my new Mariner up for its maiden voyage to its first Mariner game!! I had just gotten it back the day before after they put the sunroof and heated seats in it. The weather was actually cold enough that we did use the heated seats. :-) Michelle took a picture of us, which I haven’t gotten yet. We did get our picture taken by someone for MLB. We could see it on the M’s website (we do look very cute!!). To download it, we would have had to pay, so I haven’t gotten it. We were actually in my regular seats for this game. It was Salute to Latin American Baseball night, so they brought the flags of all the Latin American countries out onto the field. If you know them, send me an e-mail with the name of the country that goes with each flag. :-)
The person who threw out the first pitch, was the Mariner’s greatest Latin American player, Edgar Martinez:
He threw the first pitch to Ken Griffey Jr:
Using the sport setting on my camera, I was able to get this series of shots of the starting pitcher, Jarrod Washburn:
Adrian Beltre batting (I love that the ball can be seen clearly):
I had almost forgotten that my college had a get together at the game. The only problem is that you have to get the tickets for both the BBQ and game together (I’ve tried to get only the BBQ ticket and they don’t allow that). Since getting my season tickets, I have picked the tickets for this game before knowing that it is the reunion game. One of these years, I’ll not have tickets for the game and be able to join my fellow George Fox alumni. This time they were mentioned on the board, so I got this picture:
In honor of the Latin American Night, they had some dancers on top of both dugouts. These are the ones on the 3rd base visitor dugout:
Griffey hitting (check out where the ball is at!!):
With Jeremy Reed being traded, I’ve had to find a new favorite player (s). One of mine is Brandon Morrow. One thing I find amazing is that he is a Type 1 diabetic (I’m Type 2) and is able to still play at the MLB level. I think that is awesome!! He’s also been able to help fellow teammate, Mark Lowe, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes last year. Here’s a series of Brandon’s pitching:
Another M’s pitcher, Chris Jakubauskas. I thought this next one was a great picture, because of the placement of the ball above his head:
The M’s closer, David Aardsma:
As a tribute to Latin America, they had the names of the teams in Spanish (thankfully they didn’t have everything written in Spanish or else it could have been a very interesting game):
The final score:
