You're Out!

This past weekend I went to see the Phillies play the Braves. What an absolutely insane game. The first 4 innings flew by. Then the game, and the fans, took a turn for the worse.

The Phillies were leading 3-0 in the top of the 5^th inning. Run after run the Braves began scoring. So much for ace Cole Hamels. That scoring led to some taunting by a few Braves fans sitting in the section next to ours. Taunting and their team losing do NOT sit well with Philly fans of any kind. A Phillies fan took it upon himself to let those Braves fans know it. Punches were nearly thrown and the CBP security and police came running in to save the day. They threw out the Phillies fan but allowed the Braves fans to stay. If the Philly fans were upset before, they were livid now. Chants of not so nice words were permeating the ballpark. Apparently the Braves fans couldn't let bygones be bygones and they started their taunting again.

Now meanwhile the game is still going on and the Braves are still scoring. It's now 6-3, the Braves having taken the lead. Security came back in and finally (after much yelling from surrounding Phillies fans) threw out those tomahawk choppers. You should have heard the cheering and roaring of the crowd when those guys were removed. The only problem, the cheers came at exactly the same time as one of the Braves hit a 3-run homer. If you were elsewhere in the ballpark or certainly a player on the field you would have thought there were a lot of Braves fans in attendance. Not good timing.

In total the Braves scored 9 runs that inning. That's a deficit not easily overcome. But don't count the Phillies out; just ask last year's Mets team. The very next inning the Phils scored 7 runs and managed to hold on. The final – 10-9 Phillies. That sold out crowd went ballistic when Chase Utley threw out the last batter.

Twists, turns, fights, near punches, taunts, highs, lows; it was like an episode of the Soprano's, minus the guns and the cannoli. I loved it. Batter up!