Family Reunion

Last night was the season opener for the Sacramento Rivercats. They won 8-7. It was a game worth watching albeit a bit long. The Cats have a lot of new faces. Their holdovers include Ron Flores, the talented reliever who has been to the bigs several times; Hiram Bocachica, who has moved to the outfield but continues to have a strong bat; Charles Thomas - outfielder who had trouble at bat last night but still looked good in the field; Jeremy Brown, Catcher who was batting in DH last night; Santiago Casilla (the pitcher known as Jairo Garcia for one season) who has a blazing fastball which is not always on target; Daric Barton, who took over for Dan Johnson at first base and has a promising career ahead of him; and Jason WIndsor - who came up last season and had a phenomenal start in AAA. But there are also a lot of new faces.

What impressed me last night is that even though we went behind early the Cats came back three times to finally win the game in the bottom of the ninth. The team also unveiled a new logo which looks a lot like to old one, only with different colors.

We've been in the same seats for the duration of the tenure of the team in Sacramento, so part of the fun of opening night was seeing a group of people we have shared games with for six (starting seven) seasons. We got a chance to catch up on all our developments and also to watch some pretty interesting baseball.