Cubs vs. Cincinnati 1:20 PM – Kevin, Wigs, Kristen & Julie
Another beautiful day, which means it’s not raining and the sun is out. Yea!! It was kind of chilly with a cool wind blowing, but once the bleachers filled in, short sleeves were fine. Heather out of town, so Kristen took her ticket.
Scary incident that makes yesterday’s hot dog caught in feeding tube appear tame. Before the game started, a girl in our row collapsed. She was probably in her mid 20’s and we didn’t see exactly what happened. First security showed up, then ballpark paramedics and then other paramedics and lastly firemen. This poor girl was not moving. Before anyone got there, a woman and another guy were doing chest compressions on her. After the rescue workers got there, they continued with the compressions, and then started with the shocks. They had that breathing plastic thing (you know, that looks like a liter Coke container). She never regained consciousness that we saw. Eventually, they got her out of there on one of those orange boards. Wow. Kev asked the aisle security guy if there was any update on her, and he said she had a heart attack, and did finally regain consciousness. I’ll have to ask other sources if that’s what they heard too. I feel like security was told to say this to anyone who asked. Freaky. When we mentioned this to Jonna later at Bernie’s (who works in the ER), her first thought was when it’s someone that young, you suspect cocaine. Really – do people still do that drug?? I thought that got left behind with the 80’s. But clearly I’m not up on my pop drug culture.
So now we all turn our attention to the game. It felt weird. Edwin Jackson going for 1st win of season. Unfortunately, he didn’t get it. He has yet to make it to the 7th inning this year. Cubs were swept by the Reds. Darwin Barney hasn’t had a hit in like 5 games.
We only stayed until the 5th inning (Kevin wanted a complete game), so that we could go to Bernie’s and watch the Hawks. That didn’t turn out so well either. Duncan Keith tied it up just before the end of regulation, and they went into overtime. Again. Minnesota scored 2:15 into overtime. Ugh. I hope this fires them up to come out skating on Tuesday.
There was an unusually large contingent of Jewish fans/teenagers in the bleachers today, some of whom had on Cubbie-blue yarmulkes. There was some sort of writing on it, but I couldn’t make it out. And I couldn’t get a picture. Really need to work on my spy skills. I wonder if it was a bar mitzvah party or something.
Cubs demoted Sappelt to Iowa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEA!!! We’ll see how Ryan Sweeney does as his replacement. He was batting .327 in Iowa with 6 HR’s and 16 RBI. He’s 28. Sveum said “He’s another guy on the bench who can hit and hit the ball out of the ballpark.” This annoys me. It seems like everyone is always trying to hit it out of the park. Even when the wind is blowing in. How about stringing a few hits together vs. always trying to hit a HR????
They also recalled Rafeal Dolis and DFA’d Kameron Loe (the 6’8” dude).
Recap:
Cubs lose 7-4
Trish & John sold parking for $25 each. They actually sold an extra spot since they were on separate corners (or streets??), and had to turn someone away.
My season record: Visitors 8, Cubs 4
This was the 26th game out of 31 decided by less than 3 runs.
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