Roughriders Baseball Game

Baseball fans. We saw it all on Saturday night, May 20^th. If not, we didn’t miss much – that’s part of baseball. Final score: Frisco 8, Amarillo 7 in ten innings. Our group was part of over 7,000 in attendance, who experienced a clear night with the temperature starting around 75 degrees at 7:05 pm and slowly falling to the upper 60s. Game play time was 3 hours and 26 minutes.

Looking at the Box score… It started with Amarillo scoring 4 runs in the first inning and then adding 1 in the third inning and 1 in the fifth inning. This gave Frisco fans plenty of time to take a nap and enjoy their peanuts and Cracker Jacks. Finally in the sixth inning Frisco got on the board with 5 runs which included a grand-slam home run. A grand-slam home run is when a player hits it out of the park with three other players on base for a total of four runs. Frisco added 1 run in the seventh which tied the score at 6 each. The score stayed tied through nine regulation innings. In the tenth inning Amarillo scored 1 run and Frisco answered with two strong single hits that scored 2 runs. This resulted in the score of 8 to 7.

Evan Carter, center fielder, had 4 hits including the one that brought in the winning run in the bottom of the 10^th inning. He’s a player to watch moving up to the Rangers in the not-too-distant future. Liam Hicks, catcher, was the player scoring 4 runs with the grand slam home run. He, too, could move up soon. Amarillo and Frisco both used a total of five pitchers each during the game.

What else happened, you ask? In the tenth inning Amarillo had one player hit with a pitched ball and was awarded a walk to first base. His acting was so good I thought I was watching a foul in a soccer match. This same player was caught sleeping on first base and was tagged out. The Amarillo coach went ballistic and, after a heated conversation with the umpire, he was ejected. And Brother John Forsythe even caught a foul ball that bounced off the roof of the clubhouse behind us. I believe he gave the baseball to former Knights of Columbus Squire Andrew Briseno. What more could you ask for in a baseball game?