A White Sox Winner

We decided at the last minute to get White Sox/Yankees tickets on Saturday. We were already planning for Tyler to visit with Grandma and Grandpa Ellsworth in Morris so we could go to a cookout at Alyssa's later that evening. So we headed up to Chicago for a late day game. We left at 1:15 thinking that would be ample time to make to it the park but traffic kept us from seeing the whole first inning. Our seats were in the right field corner of the upper deck. Although we were high up, we had a pretty good view of everyone on the field. It was a fun game to see....the Sox scored 14 runs--none of which were home runs. They ended up beating the Yankees by a score of 14-4 so the offense was explosive, creating a bit of a longer game. Mike was excited because most of his favorite players had a big game. We left at the end of the 8th but stayed to watch the closer Bobby Jenks get introduced (he wasn't supposed to play because he had kidney stones). We left early so we could beat traffic but we still got stuck for a while. We didn't make it to Alyssa's cook-out until after 8. We enjoyed good food and sitting around a nice big fire (it was a very chilly day and night for the first of August). Unfortunately, we couldn't stay as long as we would have liked because we had to get Tyler home. We headed home and landed around midnight, definitely the latest I've been up in a long while!

In front of the score board on the upper deck (it was very overcast).

Mike enjoying the view

In the stands, cheering on the Sox

Our specatulor view