Bottom of the ninth…

Picture this…
The Rainbows come to bat in the ninth inning having trailed since the first inning when the Arizona Wolfpack scored two off of Ian Harrington. We scored one in the fourth, but still trailed by one. In the sixth Arizona added another leaving us two behind again. That’s the way it stayed in this pitching duel until the bottom of the ninth.
Justin Frash led off the inning and hit a long, hard fly ball to center that should have been caught but wasn’t for a two base E8. Brandon Haislet comes to bat and hits a single driving in Frash. Kris Sanchez is up next and hits into fielder’s choice that goes 6-4 and almost becomes a double play. Haislet had pretty much taken out the second baseman and the throw to first was a four bouncer didn’t reach the bag in time. Eli Christiansen is up next and takes four straight pitches for a base on balls moving Sanchez to second. At this point the Arizona pitcher comes out of the game short of a complete game. Rodriguez threw 119 pitches in a beauty of a game, but he was tired. Still at this point it’s still three to two in their favor with a man at first and second.
Up to the plate comes Evan Zimny who struggled at the plate for the first half of the season but has recently gotten his average up to .275 coming in to tonight’s game. He takes the first pitch for a strike. The second pitch he fouls for a strike. The third pitch is a ball and he fouls off the fourth. The next pitch is thrown, Zimny swings, and hits a three run home run to right field near the foul line winning the game and sending the fans into a frenzy!
I’ll post my scores later, but it was a beaut.
In other news, I took the first half of a “Zen and the Art of Photography” course today from 9-4 taking the day off of work. A fellow named Doug Beasley is giving the course, a shortened version of fuller version he usual gives. I enjoyed the class today, but will have to digest a bit more before I can say much about it. Tomorrow we are off to the Contemporary Museum in Makiki for brunch(?) and photography.
Here are two shots I web-sized quickly just to throw up here. The first is a “blur” shot taken by moving the camera during the exposure in a section of the class about breaking rules.

That’s it for now. I’ve got to get everything plugged in for tomorrow which promises to be another fine day!
Aloha!
The second shots was taken during the same section, but doesn’t really break any rules. I like it though.