Overheard at Rogers Centre: It’s Going, Going, ZAUN!

I heard this classic number in the 11^th inning of the Blue Jays’ 4-3 win over the Seattle Mariners. It had been a tight game the whole day, with the Jays’ explosive offense held in check by my lack of attention. Carrying a 3-2 lead into the ninth, our win seemed assured as BJ Ryan came in to save the game. However, after a long fly ball scare, Betancourt hit a home room to almost the same part of the fence and tied it up, blowing Ryan’s chance at his 25^th save of the season.

At this point, I was growing restless. It was supposed to be a hot day, although us sitting in the shade counteracted the heat fairly well. We had been spending the last few innings in the 100 level visiting dogs because it was Dog Day (I saw 2 HUGE Saint Bernards and 1 large arctic-wolf variety), and managed to find some empty seats near the 3rd base line. Pauline had expressed her baseball knowledge by stating that the game would last 11 innings, and it turned out to be true. When I heard a fan shout the aforementioned quote when Zaun came up to bat, he wasn’t able to hit a walkoff homer, but singled and started the chain of events the result in Catalanotto’s walkoff RBI. An exciting finish & win for once!

I went to this game because a few weeks back, I went to a game where I received a free Vernon Wells bobblehead (saw it on sale today for $19.99!). There were people handing out online survey passcodes with the motivation that if you finish the survey, they send you a pair of complimentary tickets. So I ended up with 6 tickets and was able to invite a variety of people as well as meeting up with some of my other friends who received complimentary tickets. The unfortunate thing was that we didn’t arrive in time to be one of the first 10,000 fans and receive a free cap! Oh well.

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