May 18

Well, we dropped the first game against the Phillies. It was a low scoring game. They got a run in the fifth inning and then we caught them in the seventh. It looked like we were going to take the lead, but the one run was the only one we got. The Phillies snuck in another run in the eighth and it gave us three outs to tie or win. The ninth inning looked good. We had a guy on second and Tracy put in Giambi to pinch hit. There were two outs and everything looked good. Then, the ump called a strike on an obvious ball. It was high and out of the strike zone. The TV camera showed a close up of Giambi’s face, He couldn’t believe it and let the ump know about it. But, it looked like it flustered the big guy and he ended up striking out. It was kind of demoralizing. We are one in eleven at Philadelphia. We need to take tomorrow’s game to get us back on track. De La Rosa pitched a really good game. He stayed in the entire time.
It was a very rainy day today. There were tornados and hailstorms. It got pretty bad for a while. Last time we had weather like this, the basement at work flooded. I was kind of looking forward to seeing it like that when I came in, but it didn’t. The building engineers must have fixed whatever was leaking last year.
The car died again today. The girls were going to the store to pick up some snacks, but when they went out to turn the car on, it didn’t want to do anything. So, we had to have it jumped. We are definitely going to get a new battery tomorrow. And, we’ll throw in an oil change and maybe a tune up for good measure. Now that we have only one car, we can’t afford to let it get messed up. But, the important thing was that we got our snacks.
I made it about halfway through chapter five yesterday. I’ll try to finish that up tonight and maybe even get started on chapter six. I’m putting Foreigner, Fleetwood Mac, Cat Stephens, and Poison in the playlist tonight for background music.
-Thom