Category: Mariners Spring Training

Spring Training – Sunday February 26, 2017

Another great day of baseball.

Section 109
Seats  9 & 10
Cano getting ready for the season.

Second day of Spring Training and Nellie’s second home run.
The hit
The bye bye

And the happy totals.

This is a new scoreboard and they are still learning to use it.  The day’s attendance did not get shown, I think it was in the 4,500 range.

After the game we drove out to Tempe and had dinner with Richard and Vickie.  They have been in Yuma and were in Phoenix for the weekend and are now on their way to Tuscon.

White Tank Mountain Regional Park, AZ – Thursday February 23, 2017

We are at a nice park west of Phoenix and a couple of miles north of Goodyear where we will be for the entire month of March. 
When we left Goodyear last Spring I got us a site at the RV Resort in Goodyear for the month of March 2017.  When I purchased Spring Training tickets in early December I needed to find a place to stay for the end of February. This is a nice place with well spaced sites and we have a great view of the valley and the city of Phoenix.  In 2016 we got here the first of March and only missed the annual charity game, however this year the charity game is 2/25 with games 2/26 and 2/27.  In December this park had 7 or 8 sites still available thus here we are for a week. 

We are in site 38 until the first.

Medford, OR – Monday February 20, 2017

Stopped early today the weather south of the Siskiyou’s is windy, restriction on high profile vehicles.  We will get up early and head south they are talking about snow at the pass after 10:00 am.

Today’s campsite; Southern Oregon County RV Park, site F5. 

7:30 pm update; News said the weather in Medford and Siskiyou is going to get cold and all this rain is turning to snow for the next two weeks.  Left Medford at 5:30 and got to the rest stop in Weed at 7:00.  The drive was fine, had some good head winds the last 10 miles.  Their is a flashing yellow sign at the rest stop saying that Hwy 97 from Weed north to Oregon is closed to RV’s and vehicle with trailers. We are on I5.  Weather dot com says the wind will drop down in the morning so I think we leave at first light.  It is much easier to drive in the wind when it is light out.

Spring Training – Saturday February 18, 2017

It is time to move into our small house and head toward the sun, warmth and baseball.
We have spent parts of the last couple of days getting ready for our Sunday departure to the Phoenix area for the month of March.   We will be at White Tank Mountain Regional Park from the 23rd through the 28th and move to Goodyear on March 1st.

I have done a few things to the small house since we got to the big house in November.
We will be towing the pickup this year so that entails a few additions: new canopy, towing base plate, braking system along with tail & running light system.  I also put in a new water pump with hopes it will take care of the water system over pressurizing itself. The last thing we did was new tires on the motorhome, we should be good to go for another 50 – 60,000 miles.
We will be back to the big house for Easter, then on to Yellowstone in May with a month of fishing in Montana on the Madison river in June, to the Garcia’s for Jack’s birthday and back to the big house in July.  We have some great travel planned for this year.

 

Goodyear, AZ – Baseball – Wednesday March 30, 2016

Today’s line up:
Felix is pitching, should be fun.

Section 111
Row N
Seats 11, 12

He had to get the mound ready.

He looks good however Felix did not have a great start.  They got 4 runs in the 1st inning and he only pitched 3 innings.

We’re in there.  Mariners have been running a lot this spring season.

You may want to get back to first but watch were you put that hand.

Today’s attendance.

The unhappy totals.
Mariners have one more game Friday night, however we are hitting the road tomorrow morning.

Here’s the post I put on my “Traveling Facebook Page”.
“Our month of Spring Training comes to an end today, tomorrow we head north for a couple of months. We had an amazing time of sun, heat and baseball. We are all set for next year. We have site 386 reserved for March and have the seats picked out at the stadium. Will be heading north toward Las Vegas, spend the weekend at Virgin River Campground just south of St. George, then north on 93, turn left at Twin Falls and finally right at Portland. We will be home Wednesday or Thursday.”

Goodyear, AZ – Baseball – Monday March 28, 2016

Today’s line up:
At this point I’d say this is the starting line up except for Robertson, I’m think he is still looking for a spot on the team.

Our seats today.
Section 115
Row D
Seats 11, 12

Da-Ho Lee made the 40 man rooster today and he got ball signing duty.

Felix had his regular none pitching day duty of harassing the other team.
The first tine Seager goes on the field he always goes right out and stands on third base.  It belongs to him and he wants everyone to understand that.

Lind got himself a new glove.
This picture is from the 19th and he had an older glove, guess he figures he had better start his position with his new team with a new glove.

Seager did not have a perfect day.

He knew when the ball left his hand he was in trouble.

Can you see the ball just outside of Lind’s reach?

Today’s attendance, really low?

But the happy totals.
Yesterday Cano got three home runs with 7 RBI’s, so today Cruz had to (edit Cano ) hit it OVER the batter’s eye for 1 of our 2 runs in the 7th.  Fun game (not to HOT today).