Today was our third straight day of baseball.
We went to Peoria a little earlier so we could visit the practice fields.
Edgar was working with some of the team
while Servais was throwing batting practice.
Oh, how I wanted to ask Edgar if that was a light bat.
We also saw Dave Sims and Mike Blowers doing some sort of TV segment and than
Blowers walked down the fence signed balls until everyone was gone.
We then walked out to some of the fields where the farm team players were practicing.
There were four group rotating around four field practicing different skills. I thinks there were 30 to 32 people in each group.
This group was practicing fly balls and how to communicate who was going to catch the ball. It is actually quite difficult when everyone is trying to stand out to the coaches. The ball hogs really stood out as we were watching. They go long distances to get the fly and leave their position uncovered and allow base runners to advance.
This group was working on covering a bunt. Another field was working on getting ground balls into the outfield back into the bases and the last field was working on handling a runner going from second to third and covering a run down.
Rick Waits (pitching coach) was walking around watch and talking to fans.
Today’s line up with Felix pitching.
Our seats, in the area just past the dug out.
Section 115
Row G
Seats 11, 12
First pitch at Spring Training for Felix.
Second pitch, and then it want down hill. Felix pitched 2 and a third innings and they got a three of runs off of him.
This is today’s attendance.
The unhappy totals. We actually lost two games today because this was a split squad game day.