30° and change

Tonight's Rivercats game was a real change from the first three home games. Yesterday it was 90° - today it was about 60°. We had pretty good bats tonight - Both Linden and Gonzalez got homers but more importantly we had 12 hits. Finally, we also won the game. It is early in the season so there is still a lot to see where this team will come out. But tonight they showed some flare.

It was cold enough so that my wife decided to go back to the car in the top of the sixth. I said I wanted to stay through the sixth and I am glad I did. Garciaparra went out after going 3-3 (with a walk). But then things started to happen. Rogowski led off with a double. Petit came up and eventually walked but not before Rogowski was able to advance to third on a wild pitch. Knoedler hit into a fielder's choice and Rogowski was out at home, but Petit advanced to third and Knoedler got to second. Blasi hit a long single,and then advanced to second on a throwing error. Then Putnam singled. Linden walked. Baisley hit a solid double and scored two - five runs total.

At the end of the sixth I went back to join my wife and we listened to the rest of the game on the way home. One disappointment about this season, the Cats are now on 92.1 FM - the fans in our section wonder whether that designation covers both where the station is on the dial and the total watts of power. The signal is very uncertain. We hope that gets better.