T Stands for A Double Header

A double header is a baseball term for two baseball games played one after the other. Since it's Tea Day and Second on the Second, and baseball season has started, a reprint from August 14, 2018, T Stands for the Greenville Drive

Himself is a fan of the baseball team, the Boston Red Sox. The Boston Red Sox has a farm league (minor league) team, the Greenville Drive in Greenville, South Carolina. The team had a home game while we were visiting so Moopa got tickets for us to go to a night game.

At the entrance to Fluor Field the logo for the Boston Red Sox 

and the logo for the Greenville Drive

A statue to Greenville favorite son, Shoeless Joe Jackson. As a teen, Jackson was a textile mill worker and played for the mill's baseball team. He got his nickname Shoeless Joe when he removed his cleats because of blisters and played a game in his socks. Jackson is best remembered for his alleged association with the Black Sox Scandal when members of the Chicago White Sox fixed the outcome of the 1919 World Series. As result, Jackson was banned from baseball for life.

Fluor Field has a replica of Fenway Park's Green Monster.

Green Monster at Fenway Park, Home Field of the Boston Red Sox, Boston, Massachusetts

Photo By Aidan Siegel - From en.wikipedia; description page is (was) here, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1155838

Moopa got us great seats behind third base and across from the Jumbo-tron. 

The Drive were playing the Rome Braves another A-league team for the Atlanta Braves. A Rome Brave player warms up before the game.

Players and fans stand for the National Anthem at the start of the game.

"And the home of the brave....Play ball!" (The last line of the National Anthem =^,.^=)

The score was tied 0 - 0. The Drive had 2 runners on base when fierce lighting and rain halted the game.The grounds crew scrambled to roll out the tarp to protect the infield.

Pouring rain and bolts of lightning come closer and closer. We were under an awning, but had to seek cover inside as the rain blew in. So what do you do?

You get a hot dog and a soda from the concession stand. I was too lazy to go get mustard and relish.

The storm passed and the grounds crew removed the tarp and mopped lakes of water off the field.

Back at our seats which miraculously stayed dry. Eye to the sky

Waiting for the grounds crew to finish

Ominous skies and storms on the horizon poised to roll through the area.

After an hour and a half debate of whether to play the game or not, the game was called because of the severe weather in the area. A make up game was schedule for the following afternoon. Fans could bring their tickets to gain admission to see the game.

Sadly, we were headed back to Ohio to pick up the Young One so weren't able to go. Moopa texted us that the Drive, pretty near the bottom of their division, won the game against the Braves with a score of 4 to 1. Moopa thought our presence in the field must have brought the team luck.

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