Pittsburgh Pirates Action ~ 4/20 2014
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Pittsburgh’s PNC Park is beautiful.
Great city-scape, great park, and nice partisan people.
The park is easy to get to from outside the city: parking not a problem.
The rubber match of the home Pirates v Brewers series.
Gerrit Cole pitched well with the exception of a couple of pitches:
One of them was to Brewer slugger Carlos Gomez which ended up off the center field wall. In my estimation Gomez’ hit should have been caught by ‘pretty boy’ McCutcheon. After having to hustle in to third Gomez physically responded to sharp commentary from Cole. A huge brouhaha at third base emptied the bull pens and dug-outs and then moved into the outfield.
Big-to-do: words and fisticuffs.
Another mistake which ended up being significant was served up to Ryan Braun. The partisan crowd was way mouthy with Braun; not allowing him to get near the plate without loudly voiced blue-collar steroid and morality commentary. Braun did not visibly respond to the crowd’s taunts with the exception of whenever he had the opportunity to toss a baseball into the crowd; he choose to toss it into the Brewer’s dugout.
That and a well timed and well hit home run: Late in the game Ryan Braun hit an errant Gerrit Cole pitch out of the park to tie the game and send it into extra innings.
The Pirates would go on top again only to see the game tied once more and later won by the Brewers with home runs off the Pirate’s closer and bull pen.
Day baseball in a nice park on a great spring day.
Life Is Good
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It was nice to sit next to you guys at the game! Your pictures are beautiful.
thanks, it was a great day
Steve-incredible photos!!!! I’am in awe of the action you captured.I feel like I was in the Park.That is what impressed me about your photos from the Hockey pics I loved when I first saw your work a couple of years ago.These are awesome.I should probably talk to you about getting prints.Do you have any ideas about that or are these for your personal collection?Have you ever sold any?I’am back-had to look at Cole again.
You are a great artist my friend!!!!!!
hey bill – thank you for the great feedback on the photography – when we finished teaching we had a small youth action sports photography business which was great until it grew and started to feel like work – the profit motive thing got in the way – I no longer take other people’s money for my work but I am will to share my work – you decide what images you want to make prints from and let me know – do not feel like you need to limit yourself – I will e-mail you digital image files that you can make prints from – my project for the time we are home this year is to get my print room set up again