Crazy night at Ranger's Ballpark

Alicia and I drove to the Rangers game tonight in pouring rain. The game was delayed 2.5 hours until 9:30 pm giving us plenty of time to buy our Kinsler and Young T-Shirts. Despite a constant drizzle and the late hour it was a very exciting game. Texas took a 6-2 lead into the 9th and all-star closer Neftali Feliz came into the game but quickly worked himself into a jam. With 2 outs,2 strikes, and the bases loaded (1 strike away from a win) Patterson on the Orioles hit a Grand Slam bomb to tie it up. I've never seen anything like it, the stadium went deathly silent. When the Rangers failed to score in the bottom of the inning, most of the crowd headed home.

It was still raining, and past 1 in the morning. I had the bright idea to go find better seats, in the front row of club level just behind the Ranger's dugout. The first batter up in the 10th hit a looping foul ball in our direction. As all of us are thinking, "Holy Crap, that ball is actually coming right towards us" I stuck out my glove and caught it over the railing (the same railing a fan fell over earlier this week) and received a pretty nice cheer from the stadium :). Ranger's Ballpark in Arlington gives an "Honorary Contract for the Day" certificate to any fan who catches a game ball on the fly and the usher came down to inform me that I should pick one up on my way out.

The very next pitch was an Oriole homerun. We never saw it because we were still celebrating the foul ball, haha. Ranger's lost the heartbreaker, in the rain, at 1:30am, 7-6, but we were happier with the outcome than if Feliz had struck that guy out instead of giving up the grand slam. A baseball team will lose many games in a year, but most fans will never catch a ball in their lifetime.

Waiting out the rain delay...in our new shirts.

(Alicia's side note: this is what Texas weather does to my hair :( not a pretty site)

((Justin's side side note: I think it looks great))

Watching in the rain at midnight

The view from our original seats (our best yet)

The view from the seats we moved up to in the 10th inning

A little boy's (and any baseball fan's) dream come true

We made it on TV! Watch it here...

(Another side note from Alicia: the fireworks were even cancelled...something about it being too dry and starting fires ;) )