Game #48 - Cubs vs. Braves

Game #48

Sunday, September 22, 2013
Heather, Wigs, Kevin & Julie

Beautiful outside today – sunny and warm, but not too much so. We picked up some tacos from Azteca D’ Oro and headed into the park. We were hoping for another win today so we could avoid the Atlanta celebration. No such luck. The Washington/Marlins game was about 3 innings in by the time our game started, so if Washington loses, the Braves clinch. That happened in about the 6th inning of our game, and all the f’ing Brave fans in the crowd started doing their stupid chant and chop. I really hate that chop – have for years. At least there weren’t as many Braves fans today as yesterday, but there were still a lot. The team did a mini-celebration – at least in the bullpen, the guys were shaking hands and doing the “man hug”. This made it easier to take since we didn’t have to watch them hop around on the field. Although I was pretty sure they still would after the game.

Edwin Jackson pitched today, so you knew this game could go either way. During his 28-pitch first inning, he gave up a 2-run homer to Freddie Freeman in the 1st – this guy kills us. Cubs came back with 1 run in the bottom of the first, but that was it until the 8th inning where they tacked on 1 more. Jackson gave up 2 more homers, both to Andrelton Simmons (what kind of name is this??), one in the 4th and one in the 8th. Cubs lose.

Wigs left in about the 6th inning to head to Bernie’s to watch the SF game. Kev left at the same time to head to airport for his flight to Vegas. “work trip”. Uh-huh… Heather & I stuck it out until the end of the 8th (after not winning the 50/50 again!), and then headed over to meet Wigs. We clearly didn’t miss anything. My friend Peplansky (who works at Wrigley), stopped by to say “see you next year”. His funny story: on Sunday’s, kids can run the bases, and they put velvet rope stands up to organize the line. Apparently, the Atlanta fans thought it was for the Braves players/fans to celebrate the division win. Um no. hahahahaha.

Over to Bernie’s to meet up with Wigs, Kristen, Trish & John. Bears night game tonight, but I knew I couldn’t stick it out at Bernie’s for the whole thing, so I headed home before start of game. Wigs did win the Marshall jersey – yippee! I hope we have a lot by the end of the year (we got Forte one last week).

Recap:

Cubs Lose 5-2

My season record: Visitors 31, Cubs 17

The OB’s did park today, and for the season, their total take was over $2K. Nice!!