Home Team: Dayton Dragons
Visiting Team: Burlington Bees
Venue: Fifth Third Field (Dayton, Ohio)
Game Time: 7:00 p.m.
Fellow Attendees: Doug, Shawn, Lyle
Game Story | Box Score
The score was tied at 5 when we left after the bottom of the fifth inning. Leaving a game early is not my modus operandi, but the tickets came from my buddy Doug, so he was calling the shots. And really, I couldn't object--the temperature was well into the 90s with pretty significant humidity, so we were all bathed in sweat the whole time we were there.
And really, the story of this one wasn't so much in the game. The Dragons were celebrating their streak of 815 consecutive sellouts (now at 821, I think), the longest in pro sports history, so there was quite a bit of stuff going on. Before the game, ceremonial first pitches were caught by former Reds players Bill Doran, George Foster, and Eric Davis; plus they had a couple of skydivers land in the stadium during the National Anthem. During the game they had short speeches from Archie Griffin and Magic Johnson, part of the group that owns the team, and a little bit later they did something similar with former Dragons and current Reds Logan Ondrusek, Chris Heisey, and Drew Stubbs, who were helicoptered to Dayton after the Reds' victory over Atlanta. So all of that was pretty cool.
Of course, as cool as all of that was, I was definitely interested in the game as well. One nice thing about going to Dragons games is that there's usually at least one or two Reds prospects I'm looking forward to checking out. On this night it was shortstop Billy Hamilton, who did not disappoint. He had a walk, a stolen base, a triple, and two runs scored while we were there, and also played some nice defense. It'll be pretty awesome to have him manning shortstop in Cincinnati in a few years--dude makes things happen.
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