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May 15- Dunedin at Lakeland
The Dunedin Blue Jays were in town to take on the Lakeland Flying Tigers Thursday night. Wild game around as Ramon Garcia made his Lakeland debut giving up 3 home runs to Dopirak, Emaus and Emanuele. Lakeland countered with home runs by Ryan Strieby and Brennan Boesch and excellent pitching by Sborz and Witt to take the game 8-7.
The gates were open early to honor a lot of little league teams on the field. No one really to be in charge of them as they engulfed me when all the players started coming out. They were just screaming at the players by number to the point the Dunedin guys just cut across the field to get to the other side so they didn't have to pass them. Every player was just getting mobbed to sign their hat, t-shirt, glove, whatever and no one had a pen.
I ended up just going to the other side to wait for Arencibia to finish warming up the pitcher. Even though Gustavo Chacin is listed on Dunedin, I never saw him. Tata ducked out to the bullpen and went the same way back to the clubhouse.
There was a rare Casey Crosby sighting tonight. He was there with Clelland, Dlugach, Graham, O'brien and some others to enjoy the game. I asked him to sign and he asked me which one I wanted signed. I told him I've been trying to get him since spring and needed him for other people and he was cool enough to sign the page. Only time I've ever seen him at a game. I would give him a try by mail to those needing him since he should be rehabbing here for a while.
Angel Castro was promoted to Erie and replaced on the roster by Guillermo Moscoso. Tomorrow is team poster giveaway day. Hopefully it's not the same picture they used for team photo giveaway day!
Dunedin:
JP Arencibia 6/6, picture with
Adam Calderone, picture with
Jonathan Diaz 1/1 on 4x6
Jesus Gonzalez, picture with
Al Quintana, picture with
Luis Sanchez 1/1 on 4x6
Lakeland:
Michael Bertram 1/1 on team photo
Cale Iorg 4/4, 3 cards, 1 4x6
Jeff Kunkel 1/1 on team photo
Rick Porcello 1/1
Shawn Roof, picture with
Zach Simons 8/8
In the stands:
Casey Crosby 8/8
Brent Dlugach 4/4
Next up:
Dunedin again on Saturday
and Palm Beach makes their only stop of the season with a four game series starting on Sunday
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