Talk about fun, it was a great day to just be a fan watching the Cubs smack around the A’s at Phoenix Muni. The A’s stadium was packed to near capacity (7,994) with a very large portion of those being Cubs fans who enjoyed a 24 hit attack that produced a 20 to 5 Cubs victory on a sunny and slightly cool AZ day(64 degrees at game time). Somewhat lost in the hitting barrage was a solid performance by Ryan Dempster who went 4.1 innings, allowing 1 run on 3 hits while whiffing 6 Athletics.
I’ll let some of the photos I took today take over from here…enjoy.
Dempster focused
Dempster and Bobby Scales with Papago Mountains behind
Cubs fans a plenty
Demp dealing
The Riot hitting a triple down the right field line
Quade: “Nice triple Riot, now if we talk real quiet Nomar won’t hear us”
Giambi holds Fontenot on first after he singled, driving in Theriot
Good to see D-Lee playing, here he smacks his first spring HR
A’s Rajai Davis can only watch as D-Lee’s bomb disappears beyond 410
Lee HR trot
Hoff and Lee 5′s up top
Everyone’s happy to see Lee hitting
Excellent pics, Tim, makes me want to be there! The game must have been awesome; let’s hope they can do that in the regular season!