Tiger Geist

I am holding in my left hand a ticket for the July 11th San Francisco Giants vs San Diego Padres baseball game at AT&T park, San Francisco.  You’d think this would be a good thing, but it would have been a whole lot better if I had a ticket for the game on July 10.  I blame friend of TigerGeist Scott for this one.

Mucho kudos to Jonathan Sanchez and the performance he put on Friday night.  He was awesome, and its a great story (his dad flew in to see him pitch for the first time in his career; his demotion earlier this year, etc).  Ever since the SF fans turned on him earlier this year, I’ve been hoping Dave Dombrowski would figure some way to nab him;  surprisingly DD isn’t answering my calls.  Now, I have no idea how the Giants could trade Sanchez, or at a minimum the asking price just went up.

I got an email Thursday from Scott, asking if I wanted to go to either the Saturday (Matt Cain) or Sunday (Barry Zito) games.  We had been wanting to catch Randy Johnson this year, but with the big unit’s injury, Scott just wanted to go to his first game of the year.  Notice, there was no option for Friday night’s game.  So I picked the Cain game.  What happens next?  Sanchez throws the first no-hitter in San Francisco history Friday night; Cain gets drilled in the elbow with a line drive (by the opposing pitcher) in the second inning of Saturday’s game.

So I’ve still never witnessed a regular-season no hitter in person, and was off by one game for the second time in two years.  First my wife, now Scott.  I did witness the Washington Nationals no-hit Detroit in spring training, which I guess might be even more random.