I was able to start the day up north by going to the Cherry festival in Traverse City. Anything you can think of involving cherries, plus more was going on or being sold. Also plenty of boats were out in the water, a beautiful day to do it, indeed.
It was a longer drive than the past few days, getting back down south. But we arrived at Eastern Michigan for the Oakland County Cruisers game. They were playing here because there stadium is still in the process of being built. The stadium is much smaller, and it looks old. It was built in 1971 apparently, but has a nice covered concourse, but with only bench seats. At one point, I counted 62 people in the stands. There were some kids playing in the grass too, but ticket sales couldn’t have topped 100. There were no concessions at all, and a folding table was there souvenir stand. No mascot either, but there was some entertainment. The owners are not trying very hard right now. Hopefully they will care once they have a stadium. This field was also a field turf infield, but with real grass in the outfield, and a dirt mound. All that said though, it was an interesting place to see a game. A bit reminiscent of what I think games in days gone by would have been like. The game itself was another pitching duel, and the game was tied by the Cruisers in the bottom of the eighth, 2-2. Just like yesterday. The away team was the Southern Illinois Miners. Just like yesterday. The game started to go into extra innings. Uh-oh. I wasn’t ready for another 16 inning game, especially sitting on those benches. But in the bottom of the 11th, on a wild throw from the catcher to 3rd base, the Cruisers scored, sending us home victors! So in the past two days we have seen 27 innings, the equivalent of 3 games in two.
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