Catching Up On The Baseball

Pica is reclining on the couch right now, left leg elevated, and is happily scoring the Boston Red Sox-Oakland A’s game. This is a key four-game series between the Red Sox and the A’s, since the two teams are very close in the AL wild card race. It’s always a matter of conflicted loyalties when these two teams meet, since Pica is a Red Sox fan and I grew up following the A’s, but I’ll have to admit my loyalities have shifted so that I root for the Red Sox in such matchups. After all, the Red Sox have a longer history of disappointments to overcome.

On the day of our wedding yesterday, one of the rarest of baseball events occurred: an unassisted triple play. Rafael Furcal, the shortstop for the Atlanta Braves, turned the play in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals. This is only the 12th unassisted triple play in major league history. This surely must be a portent for us, or at least the answer to a good trivia question.

Pica will be headed in for surgery on her ankle early Wednesday morning. I don’t think we’ll be catching the rest of the A’s-Red Sox series in person, alas.