More photos from the Dodgers vs Cubs Game

Los Angeles Dodgers vs Chicago Cubs

I was lucky enough to not only go to the first game of the series against the Dodgers, but I also got to sit very close on the first baseline. (Thank you, Grace!!)

I learned about the awesome website Borrow Lenses and rented a 18-300 mm lens just for this game.

Sadly I did not give myself enough time to get used to the lens so this happened.

I really wish this picture was in focus!!

Aside from that, it was interesting to see how Starlin Castro and Junior Lake hung out with each other during warm ups before the game.

You never see this on TV and sometimes you forget how much preparation goes into playing a baseball game.

Of course since there are big names on the Dodgers, I had to capture of few of them.

Starlin chatting with Jerry Layne before the start of the game. I can imagine Pat Hughes making a joke about Starlin dropping a twenty to get some calls in his favor.

Dioner Navarro giving Lake a congratulatory slap on the butt after his homer in the first inning. This was also right before Anthony Rizzo hit a solo shot of his own.

Everyone has been gushing about Yasiel Puig for the past month and a half, well here he is on first standing next to Rizzo just to give you an idea of his size.

Stan on Twitter brought up last night how Welington Castillo makes fantastic faces, I’d have to say Starlin does also.

Another observation, Travis Wood seems to have taken Matt Garza’s spot pitched right by the dugout stairs.

Rizzo jumping out of the way of an inside pitch. I could not help myself and had to make a collage of it.

An exciting bunt, 5-2 was the scoring.

In case you need another reason to love Rizzo, here he is giving the bat boy a hug after he hit is second homer of the night.  You cannot see the bat boy’s whole face, but just look at his eyes and you know he is grinning.

I mentioned Castillo makes some amusing faces earlier, here is one from when he was in the on deck circle in the bottom of the ninth.

I honestly felt like this post was getting too long, but I have many more photos to share. I will be making another post about this game.

Brewers vs Cubs

If you were not able to watch last night’s game, you would have missed that there was a promotion for Cubs luchador masks in the Bleachers. And with that giveaway, it only makes sense to have Chicago native, CM Punk to sing the 7th Inning Stretch.

As I was waiting for the awesome Mike Shoro to show up with our tickets (and the gates to open) I got a shot of wrestler CM Punk heading into Wrigley. (If you look, you’ll see Keith “Zonk” Moreland in the background.)

I did get a mask, tried it on and found it very uncomfortable. I am not sure how some guys wore them the entire game.

But enough about the masks for now. The big story of the night was Jake Arrieta making his first start as a Chicago Cub.

Now I remember Harry Pavlidis commenting on my spring training post how he liked the collages of pitchers and hitters going through the motions, so I made another for Jake Arrieta.

By the way, left center is a great spot to get shots of the starter warming up for the game.

David DeJesus and Carlos Gomez saying hi in shallow center before the game started.

Segura jersey sighting. I did not see any Braun or mutilated Braun jerseys.

I tried my best to get photos of the Junior Lake show in LF, but my lens was not cooperating with me.  So here is Lake diving back into 1B.

A shot of what the masks look like from behind.

Rally mask. Enough said.

It rained off and on lightly all evening, but picked up enough to qualify as a steady rain in the top of the 9th.

Guys were not the only ones wearing the masks.

The half inning were it went bad.

How tall is Junior Lake?

I’m going to Arizona for Spring Training in less than two weeks and I have been going through my photos from last year to see what I did well, what I need to improve on. During this whole thing, I realized I have a few photos that give an idea of how tall or big Junior Lake is. So, here they are:

Everyone is curious about Junior Lake and from my memory last year, he is huge! Sadly I do not have the greatest photos of him, but I still have a few to offer to give you an idea.

Lake is the player walking straight towards my camera.

Closer look at Lake while he signs for fans.

From the left: Lake, Cardenas, Castro and NRI Edgar Gonzalez.