Re-Opening Red Dirt, Navy Cap

Three years ago, I opened this blog because I thought I needed a Baseball blog. the problem was, I missed too much baseball to really keep it going. I didn't have extra innings to watch the Sox, nor did I have season tickets to my local Redhawks. So I listened to the radio via the Internet for my Red Sox games and saw about one game per week at the Brick. This was hardly enough to keep a blog alive, no matter how much I wanted to talk baseball.



All that has changed. This is our second season sitting in the first row above the visitors' dugout at the Brick and (after having MLB.tv last year) we have finally spent the money on honest-to-God Extra Innings on digital cable this season.



Add to these factors the fact that Grad school is over and, very soon, teaching will be over too as I ma stepping out of teaching for a while to raise my twin boys. Thus, this is the perfect time to re-open Red Dirt, Navy cap and maybe I can even get some readers.



So, let's start with tonight. I just watch Youklis hit a walk-off home run WAY over the Monster to win the first game of the season series against the hated Yankees!



This makes me feel a bit better about what I watched at the brick tonight. Former Red Sox, current Omaha Royal, Lenny DiNardo pitched a beauty against the Redhawks tonight. In six innings, he allowed only one hit - a harmless, two out single by Esteban German in the first inning. The Redhawks went one, two, three against him in 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th. In the sixth, he hit Scott Thorman who led off for the Hawks, but retired the next three.



Jared Hyatt allowed one run off a sac-fly by ex-Redhawk Travis Metcalf to score J.R. House in a rough 4th inning. Ex-Red Sox Bryan Corey (who looks strangely like a piranha) was hit hard by the Royals, even when he was getting outs. He ultimately allowed two runs off of four hits. Though he looked ridiculous, his two runs would not matter, since Royals pitching shut the Redhawks out 3-0.



I'll try to include box scores as soon as I can find a quick and easy way to make them look good in this format. in the meantime, I plan to continue to give game results of Redhawks games (except when I occasionally miss and when they're on the road) and to rant on whatever baseball related material I feel like. This is, after all, a blog.



Oh, and a shout out to my buddy Shawn Byrne who caught a Mets game in the new Citi Park and watched Santana pitch an absolute beauty.