opening day and cody's first outing!

friday was opening day for the batavia muckdogs! what is a muckdog? i have no idea….google brings up every team with the mascot of muckdog when you ask too. but I can tell you they are the short a affiliate team of the marlins, located in a small town between rochester and buffalo. the field is the oldest field of the new york penn league, most of the buildings in town are from the 1800’s too, so we’ve done a complete 180 coming from palm beach.

perks over here getting free tickets every game for the "box seats" (i.e. the seats under the netting) i'm not complaining! i've gotten to meet people who are various host families, season ticket holders, family members of the other players and i even got to meet the pitching coordinator's wife who kindly let me borrow one of her blankets, i wasn't quite prepared for cold nights after the heat and humidity of florida. lesson learned.

the opening series for the team was against the auburn doubledays, sadly the first two games were lost. but it was so nice to finally watch some baseball after months of rehab and training. there are even fireworks every friday night! it's pretty comical, the music is oldies and slow and the show is pretty intermittent, but none the less, fireworks!

cody’s first outing under the lights went well even though the statistics might paint a little bit of a different story. he entered the game in the 5^th and for the 5^th and 6^th innings he was perfect, six batters up and six batters down. he was getting a lot of groundballs and was throwing all three of his pitches for strikes. then in the 7^th inning he ran into a bit of trouble. after getting a quick out he walked the next guy and then surrendered a double to put runners on second and third. then getting the next batter 0-2 he threw a good curveball down in the zone that the hitter drove up the middle for two runs. cody then retired the next two batters ending the inning on a strikeout.