Hopefully it won't rain...

I'm going to see them tonight.... and have dinner at the Gator Pit, which is the barbeque/cookout area underneath some of the seats. All you can eat hot dogs, sausages, chicken wings, spare ribs, steak tips, salad, macaroni salad and corn on the cob, plus soda all for $25 and you get to see the game, too. What a deal!

I will tell you how the game went at some point with a nice, tidy update of this here post. Ciao!

The Lowell Spinners are the class A (short season) minor league affiliate of the Boston Red Sox. There are actually four class A minor league teams in the Red Sox system, and Lowell is the second lowest level which means these are kids pretty much fresh out of college that likely won't have an impact in Boston for 3-5 years.

The Lowell Spinners (10-11) lost, 10-3 to the Jamestown (NY) Jammers (13-6), who were clearly the superior team tonight.

Still, it's good to get out to the ball park once in a while and have fun. And fun we had! We go to one Spinners game a year, with members of my mom's senior citizen program.

And towards the end of this month, V and M will get to experience their first live baseball game. More on that later.

What I did last night

The Lowell Spinners are a Class A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox.
The Tri-City Valley Cats are a Class A affiliate of the Houston Astros.
Both teams play in the New York-Penn League.

Kalish's blast powers Spinners


Lowell, MA - (July 2, 2007) Ryan Kalish smacked a go-ahead two-run homer in the seventh inning as Lowell rallied past visiting Tri-City, 8-4, on Monday.
Trailing, 4-3, Kade Keowen singled and scored on Kalish's first long ball of the season for the Spinners (9-4).

Jorge Jimenez and Carlos Fernandez-Oliva each had two hits and scored twice and Tyler Weeden drove in two runs for Lowell.

Spinners reliever Jordan Craft (2-0) allowed two runs on one hit while striking out three and walking two in two innings. Christopher Province fanned two over the final two frames for his first save. Starter Joseph Guerra gave up two runs on seven hits while fanning one in five innings.

ValleyCats reliever Carlos Ladeuth (0-2) allowed two runs on four hits with two strikeouts in two innings. Starter Anthony Bello gave up three runs on six hits while striking out three and walking two over five frames.

Catlin Everett and Cirilo Cruz each went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored for Tri-City (3-10).[ --Steve Conley/MLB.com]

Here's the box score.