{"id":5502,"date":"2026-08-31T15:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5502"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:34:07","slug":"a-day-at-the-mlb-ballpark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5502","title":{"rendered":"A day at the (MLB) ballpark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday afternoon I attended my first Major League Baseball game this season, this after seeing a mess of games at varying levels of professionalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Mess&#8221; is how I&#8217;d describe the conclusion to yesterday&#8217;s game; I should have stuck to the minors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a contest I could only describe as &#8220;a game between two bad teams&#8221; I saw my hometown club (that would be the Washington Nationals) host the Miami Marlins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For eight innings the game was quite enjoyable, actually, the action zipping along and the Nats holding a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They proceeded to give up six runs in the top of the ninth inning through a series of plays I could describe only as <em>bizarre<\/em> and lost the game 6-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You know how they say you go to a ballgame and you&#8217;ll see something you&#8217;ve never seen before?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yeah, yesterday I saw like 14 in one inning&#8230; none of them good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plan on a full report Friday on the podcast&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>if<\/em> I can get myself to talk about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon I attended my first Major League Baseball game this season, this after seeing a mess of games at varying levels of professionalism. &#8220;Mess&#8221; is how I&#8217;d describe the conclusion to yesterday&#8217;s game; I should have stuck to the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5502\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5504,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502\/revisions\/5504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}