It was a beautiful night for baseball. The weather was perfect for my first Brewers game of the season.
The outcome of the game was more perfect than perfect.
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
There are those occasional pitching matchups that even people who work in baseball would happily pay to watch.
They are the kind of duels that make throwing a baseball against the best hitters in the world seem like pure art.
Some of these battles are spoiled by one guy missing location by a centimeter in the wrong situation, causing what could have been an epic clash to melt into disaster. But on the days when both men are on, it can become something so pretty that an entire stadium is left gasping in amazement.
Welcome to one such Friday night at Miller Park.
The New York Mets ran out left-handed ace Johan Santana, one of the game's best pitchers since 2003, and the Milwaukee Brewers fired back with their ace in the making, right-hander Yovani Gallardo.
No matter what side of the fence loyalties might have rested, everyone could agree on one thing: If you paid to see this one, it was money well spent.
Four bucks for a bottle of water is not money well spent. $3.75 for a tiny bag of Cracker Jack, filled with mostly air and including a really crappy prize, is not money well spent.
That aside, what a great way to begin to the Memorial Day weekend!
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