Gwinett Braves - 5/28/12

Guinette Braves at Coolray Field! This was our Memorial day Game. From our hotel, it was just 15 minutes away and we were just a little nervous about the grey sky but excited to see the game. We got there early and were exploring the park when the rain started. Luckily it was still early. We tried to find something interesting for dinner and finally settled on these jumbo dogs - one with chili and cheese, one with Cole slaw and sweet onion relish. They were tasty and MESSY!

The Seats that Michael got were GREAT! Front row on the third base line. I moved back a row as the cup holder was cutting into my leg and left the boys to goof around and make non stop, juvenile jokes about Ryan Sandburg's ass.

Oh yeah, Pete also took a ton of pictures of the aforementioned ass. Oddly, none of us managed to get a picture of him from the front!


So the game was fun except that the poor Braves went down 8-3 early in the game and just sort of spent the whole game there. There was a little bit of a rain delay, so people were starting to get antsy anticipating the fireworks as we headed to the bottom of the 9th. But the Gwinette Braves were not dead yet as they small balled their way to 8-6 and then in dramatic fashion hit a three run homer to walk off the game with a final score of 8-9. They barely had time to celebrate before the lights went out and we had celebratory fireworks! Coined the phrase and the title of our new photo/story blog "Slam and a Half" the number of runs the Braves had to make up, and did, in order to win the game.