{"id":32119,"date":"2019-08-18T15:32:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T20:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32119"},"modified":"2019-10-27T09:31:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T14:31:20","slug":"sunday-afternoon-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32119","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Afternoon Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For no particular reason, I decided to go to a baseball game in York today. I’d just been to a game in Aberdeen<\/a> last week, it wasn’t like I needed<\/em> to go, a game in York was my best option (and despite its closeness it’s also sort of my last<\/em> choice), and I couldn’t say I cared one way or the other for their baseball hat giveaway…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But an afternoon with baseball is better than an afternoon without, so I bought a ticket online — the War of the Roses, the York Revolution and the Lancaster Barnstormers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was also, though the hat giveaway was unrelated, Harry Potter Day at the ballpark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I arrived at Peoples Bank Park, about ten minutes before the gates opened, the crowd was already decently sized. There was some trouble scanning my ticket on my phone due, I think, to the brightness of the sun and the reflectivity of my screen, but that got sorted. And I did get the free Revs hat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pre-game, a helicopter flew overhead and landed in the stadium. It carried a girl who had completed a local library reading challenge, and after the game (though I didn’t stay for this), the helicopter would do a candy drop for children onto the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This was followed by a parade of children around the ballpark who had also completed the challenge as well as a local little league team from New Oxford, I think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sparse crowd on a Sunday. It wouldn’t really get better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surprising even myself, I put on the Revs hat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I did not keep the hat. Three guys sat behind me, shortly after the game started. They were on a baseball road trip — after this game they were driving up to Altoona to see an Altoona Curve game — and they were disappointed that they arrived too late to get the hats. When the left mid-game to make the Altoona game, I gave them the hat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the game, there’s very little to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Revs were terrible<\/strong>. The Barnstormers scored at will, early and often, and York dug themselves a deep<\/em> hole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the late innings, the Revs clawed away at the Barnstormers’ lead. The Barnstormers brought in Bryan Harper, the brother of Bryce Harper, to pitch. (Last summer, I bought a piece of artwork done by Bryan Harper<\/a>. It hangs in my office at work.) I was excited to see Harper pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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York’s late comeback fell short. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know what I expected from Harry Potter Day, but I expected something more than playing John Williams’ music on the PA system, some graphics on the video board, the on-field host dressing up in robes and, later, as Willy Wonka, and a costume contest with two or three kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn’t a bad outing. The afternoon was pleasant, even if the baseball was not, and the growing storm clouds held off until the game was done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For no particular reason, I decided to go to a baseball game in York today. I’d just been to a game in Aberdeen last week, it wasn’t like I needed to go, a game in York was my best option (and despite its closeness it’s also sort of my last choice), and I couldn’t sayContinue reading “Sunday Afternoon Baseball”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,2],"class_list":["post-32119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baseball","tag-atlantic-league","tag-york-revolution","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}