The Cats come back

This weekend's games through Monday night were pretty interesting. Coming into it we saw the New Orleans Zephyrs. In four games two of their players went down. First Ben Johnson got a compound fracture of his ankle on Thursday night. Then on Saturday Jesus Feliciano was chasing (and eventually caught) a fly ball to center and then hit something near the warning track and fell like a sack of potatoes and was out for about 10 minutes. The joke in the stands was that they might not choose to come back to Sacramento next season. We ended up splitting games with them.

Saturday night was also Dusty Baker night. He signed a bunch of stuff which was sold in a silent auction to benefit Oak Park Little League. I met Dusty several years ago and he was a great guy. My son met his mom in his store. She told Pete that her son played a little baseball; a classic understatement. I got outbid on a Dodgers Jersey at the last minute. Sorry I did not just jack up the price. As it was all the items only raised about $2300. For this cause and with this guy it should have raised more.

On Sunday the Oklahoma Redwings came to town. Both nights (Sunday and Tonight) were very cold for late August. We won both games. Dee Brown and Jason Perry both hit homers (each with two runs) and then we added two more for a total of six. A lot of the action was based on the prevailing winds - get the ball up in the air and it was going to travel. Tonight we started off OK only to fall behind. Tonight it was Jeremy Brown and Jason Perry for homers.

For the past couple of games Ron Flores has pitched to only a couple of batters - tonight he faced four - with two Ks.

The Cats are six games up with 27 to go. The last four are against the Sidewinders who are currently in second place in the division. If we hold on we would end up playing Salt Lake or Colorado. Salt Lake has given us fits this year. Nashville looks like it will be in the finals (although it could be (New Orleans of the Isotopes). There are two more games against Oklahoma and then a long set of road games that does not bring the team back until the 22d. Our last home games are against Fresno and then Colorado.

We will miss the last two home games to go to our daughter's wedding in the LA area. Last year we had to miss the team lunch because it was on the same day as my son's wedding - but the next day we took the whole wedding party to a Rivercats game.