35 days to wait. The Park is almost ready. The players are warming up in Florida and we are waiting. Waiting. Waiting like a rain delay.
Rain delay at CCP before Dice K rehab start.
Anyone who attended the rehab start by Boston’s Dice K can recall the anticipation and the waiting. The monsoon that swept through Coca Cola Park that night left the fans wondering when the game would start and if Dice K would still take the mound. The crowd hung on through an almost 2 hour delay and a few power outages and we did enjoy a great game that day.
35 Days…
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A little known fact about Coca Cola Park history…
… happened during the very first game played in the stadium. Before the Phillies/Ironpigs exhibition game, Jimmy Rollins was signing autographs for a large group of fans and got a big laugh from the crowd when he realized he had just signed the top of the fence. Chris Coste, not to be outdone, saw Rollins’ autograph and added his next to it. The photo isn’t great but this is one of those memories that gets lost in time.
Left: Jimmy Rollins, Right: Chris Coste
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Interesting letter to the editor in The Morning Call today concerning IronPigs.
I remember the night Daisuke Matsuzaka came to town.
I remember the rain dealy, too.
I remember Brennan King launched a shot off the centerfield wall at the expense of the Japanese World Baseball Classic star, as well.
Noise Nation was on hand to stand up for the IronPigs.
The majority of the comments I read were quite nasty and insulting of IronPigs fans.
June 16, 2008, Pawtucket 9 Ironpigs 3 going into the bottom of the 9th when the rally began. Cervenak begins the bottom of the inning by striking out. Tracy follows with a double then Chris Snelling singles to left as Tracy moves to third. John “Suomi (the money)” then doubles scoring Tracy and Snelling making the score 9-5. Brennan King follows with a single to drive in Suomi. 9-6. Oscar Robles then singles putting 2 men on and the potential tying run coming to the plate. Time for a Pawtucket midnight pitching change. Mike Rouse greets the new pitcher with what was probably the hardest hit ball he ever hit in an Ironpigs uniform. Unfortunately it was to straightaway centerfield and was caught. That ball would have been out had it been hit anywhere other than straightaway centerfield. Two outs and the tying run still at the plate in the person of Brandon Watson. BW grounds to 2nd and Robles is forced at second to end the game. Final score 9-6. It was a thrilling half inning for the 100 or so brave souls who were still there after midnight on a Monday night.
Dice K: 5 IP, 4 H, 2 R (both earned), 1 BB, 5 SO. He was the winning pitcher while Mazone took the loss. Joe Thurston who killed the Ironpigs in 2008 was 3-5 and scored 3 runs.