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04/19/2004 Archived Entry: "Phillies Journal - 2004"
Phiullies Journal - 2004
by Max Blue
Max and Liddy Check Out the Bank
We have the Sunday package – season tickets for all the home Sunday games. It’s because we don’t like to go out for the night games. We did the same thing last year. It was great except when they switched a couple of Sunday games to night games because of TV contracts. This year it’s the same- potential ESPN Sunday night games – 7/4 vs Baltimore Orioles, 7/11 vs Atlanta Braves, and 8/15 vs San Francisco Giants. – Bummer.
Another bummer is our seats at the new ballpark. Oh sure it’s a great field – green grass and all that, but they didn’t tell us our seats in section 329 are at about as high as the 600 level in old Veterans Stadium. So far away we feel like we are watching from a cloud – bummer. Liddy is not happy. Neither am I.
The game was good. It was very good. A sellout crowd of over 43,000 watched it with great intensity. They were quiet at the right times, appreciative of great infield
defense by the Phils. Only a few boos. Good pitching in tight spots by both Randy Wolf of the Phillies and Claudio Vargas of the Expos. We got to see Billy Wagner unleash his bolts in the 9th. Wolf gave up two homers in the first but the Phillies came back and took the lead on a two-run skyscraper from Thome in the sixth. The Expos tied it in the 7th when Doug Glanville, in for defense in centerfield, misplayed a tough out into a triple. But Dougie redeemed himself in the 9th with a walkoff homerun off Expo’s closer Rocky Biddle. What were they thinking? That Rocky could defeat Philadelphia?
Imagine that. The first walkoff homerun at the Bank, and we were there.
Rocky Down
Rocky Biddle looked in,
His margin for error was thin.
On a three and one count,
The best he could mount,
Doug Glanville cold cocked for the win.
Sunday, April 18, 2004. Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia
Philadelphia -5, Montreal – 4.
