Charlotte Photo Album

So last night my girlfriend and I made the drive up to Fort Mill, SC, to see the mighty Knights take on the Durham Bulls at 7:15 ET. It was a cool night, about 66 degrees at game time, cooling down to 60 by game's end. We had seats right behind the Knight's dugout on the 1B side, at the edge of the netting. With as many foul balls hit, I was glad we were relatively safe from a concussive blast.

I am not an experienced photographer, and my girlfriend claimed to be, so I allowed her to take the pics. She actually took some fairly solid pics on her Canon digital. I think I will bring her back for another game :)

When we first found our seats, I took out the program, told her the people I wanted pics of, and went out to find an ATM to grab some beer, hot dogs, and diet coke for the lady. It took me forever to find an ATM, and once I finally got the refreshments and sat down, I had missed the top half of the first. I did however, get to see Pods lead off.

It was kids' night at the Castle, and there were kids all around me banging thundersticks and playing with their WebKinz... needless to say I was anxious for the 7th inning to get there and for them to leave and go to bed.

As for the product on the field...

Well Lance Broadway looked fairly sharp. He was touching the low 90's on his fastball. He had a runner on 2nd with 1 out in the 2nd inning and proceeded to get the next two out. He looked poised, I must say, and never truly got into trouble until the 6th inning. I don't recall Armstrong or the pitching coach ever coming to the mound during his start.

On the other side, Wade Davis looked impressive. His fastball consistently sat in the 90-93 range. It's important to note that from my angle I couldn't see much break on the pitches, so I can't make any note on those. Velocity and location were the only two characteristics of the pitches I could note.

An interesting thing happened in the 6th when Adam Kennedy was IBB'd to get to Ray Sadler. This actually paid off as Kennedy was forced out at 2B.

Kennedy would have the only home run of the game, coming in the 8th inning off of Adam Russell. Russell, as big as he is, must throw flat heat. He only walked one in 2 innings of work, but his fastballs got knocked around pretty good. And yes, Charlotte does carry pretty well.

Pods would single to the opposite field(!) and made only routine plays in CF. One ball got over his head and he proceeded to miss the catch at the wall. At least there were no big-time goofs this time.

Wassermann pitched a solid 9th, giving up just one hit. He didn't strike anyone out. I don't believe he touched 90 once.

Armstrong managed a hit in the ninth, a screaming double to the wall, and this was the only highlight of his night at the plate. He didn't look so good during the rest of his at bats.

I hope to spend more time on my next recap, and go more in depth, but for now I must go to work. I leave you all with about 70 pictures from the night. Enjoy the pictures of the deliveries my gf took.

Oh and sorry about the pun in the title... I couldn't resist! 

The link to the picture album is above...

Here's the link to the box scores and the recap

Recap

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