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| Ty Griffith added a little local flavor for the Bucs today. |
The baseball Gods finally cut the Alaska League some slack and parted the clouds for an afternoon exhibition between the Heroes of the Diamond US military all-star team and the Anchorage Bucs. Of course, only a couple dozen people managed to make the game -- which is about what I expected for a Thursday afternoon, and is just fine with me as amateur photographer/scout/scorekeeper/journalist who brings plenty of junk to the park and needs a good seat with room to spread out -- but I had a very enjoyable afternoon at the park. I even got a little color in my pasty white face.
The game ended in a zero-zero tie; the two teams combined for seven hits overall, and one of those was pretty generous, with Bucs right fielder Colin Zimmermann letting one bounce off the wall about waist high right by him. I originally wrote E-9 on my scorecard; that's how it looked to me, but I'm not the official scorer and I could very well be wrong, and it's going in the history books as a double. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that there wasn't a lot of offense in this game and it moved along at pretty good clip, wrapping up in about two hours even.
Not surprisingly, I noted a lot of really good defensive work for the Bucs. But first, let's talk about the offense: I have a growing man-crush on Chris Serritella. He looked really good in the batting cage today, with a lot of pop in his bat, driving the ball to all fields, and displaying home run power despite the wind blowing in from left field. Maybe they should have put him in the lineup, but hey, I'm not a manager either.
