Twins Home Opener: Undefeated!

Baseball season is back! Nick and I went to the home opener tonight and had a fantastic time! We left a little late and only gave ourselves an hour and forty-five minutes to get there so we missed the top of the 1st inning, but we did get to see protesters in front of the courthouse so maybe that balances things out. We walked in just in time to see Joe Mauer hit a ground ball RBI and run safely to first. Go Mauer!

The rest of the game was exciting too. The Twins were playing the Angels, which meant Torii Hunter was back in town. He tipped his hat to the crowd before his first at bat and got a standing ovation. Of course, he later got booed when he caught a fly ball to get one of our batters out. In addition to Torii being gone, there was a lot of other turnover in the roster; only three starters back from last year. Carlos Gomez, one of the new players, was very entertaining to watch and stole two bases (the Twins had four overall)! We also saw the "Walk Ghost", Pat Nescheck, Joe Nathan, and Torii's bat break and fly way out into left field.

Who are these guys?

Mauer catching behind Hunter

The "Walk Ghost"

Nick and Karin

The only thing missing from this year's game was a crazed fan running onto the field before the ninth inning, but we did see some interesting fans. The woman sitting in front of us was wearing a blue flowered shirt (note: not matching) under her autographed Rondell White jersey with a pink MOA Twins cap. She turned around and said something to us about how Nick should just carry me out by my head. I wasn't quite sure what she was talking about and it turns out that Nick wasn't either, so we just let it go.

Back in the ramp, we were sitting in the car waiting to leave (we waited 30 minutes before turning the car on and getting in line because we were at the top and the gas light had turned on when we first pulled in) and a man came in and put a baby in the car next to us (luckily there was an empty space between his car and ours), got on his phone, and started to back up. He looked angry when the car behind him wouldn't let him in. In the other car's defense, it had been sitting motionless for about 20 minutes itself and still wasn't moving, so there was no where to go. The angry man proceeded to go forward and backwards and even when the other cars started to move no one would let him in. He finally gets out and we see that he had hit the car on the other side of him, which had two adults and at least two children in it. Left a huge dent in the side and took off some of the paint. A hit and run right in front of our eyes, because he never tried to talk to the other driver.

Eventually the traffic cleared and we made it home. I hope the Twins can ride the momentum and win (or sweep) the series!!