dr4b | Phillies!

damienroc came up to Seattle today to hang out. We went and saw Howl's Moving Castle. It was pretty good. I think I liked it better than Miyazaki's other recent stuff at least, though some of the characters were a little confusing to me.

After that we did some car shuffling and went downtown to go to the Mariners-Phillies game. I made Jeff come there super-early with me, and he basically sat around in the stands for an hour while I stood with all the other crazed Phillies fans watching batting practice and hoping to get autographs. My mission was to get Pat Burrell, Bobby Abreu, Jim Thome, and Mike Lieberthal to sign the scorecard I have from May 18 2004. Well... I did get Bobby Abreu! He was super-nice and came out and signed stuff for like ninety billion people. Very nice guy. Very good player, too.

I also went and took pictures of Meche warming up (though I'm not sure they came out well enough to post) and of the Lieber-Lieberthal battery.

The game itself went REALLY quickly and was really low scoring. Jon Lieber got out of the whole 8 innings for like 87 pitches (61 of which were strikes; he walked nobody), but lost, since he gave up three runs, and Meche, despite throwing a ton of pitches (119 in 8 innings, 73 for strikes) only gave up one run, so he won.

Boone made some great plays, but he looked like an idiot running the bases.

Dave Hansen hit a sweet home run.

For a flyball pitcher, most of Lieber's outs were groundouts, but almost all of Meche's outs were pop outs.

Oh yeah, and Ichiro led off the game by getting his 1000th MLB hit.

Hey, do most catchers wear those weird cushions behind their legs like Mike Lieberthal is here? That's really odd, and it looks like it'd really make squatting a lot easier for him.

Phillies!

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