4926. Go to Brewer’s a taxi squad practice/game

 Because the Pandemic messed with baseball in more ways than one, Appleton became home of the Brewers taxi squad, basically AAA players that will float between AAA and the majors to help when players are injured or out due to COVID.  Appleton was picked because it is the home of the Brewers A team and it's only about 90 miles up the road from Milwaukee. It made the most sense. 

Even though the T-Rats would have loved to have fans in the stands last year for taxi squad practices and games, they couldn't. When Major League baseball pushed back the start of the AAA season so there could be a month of taxi squads, just in case, Appleton was again chosen to be the Brewers taxi squad partner. This time fans were allowed in on a limited basis.

I told the hubby I wanted to go. Most of the practices/scrimmages were held during the day for about three hours. The hubby reluctantly agreed to go. I bought tickets. Then he got stuck waiting for Grandma at the doctor for over two hours. I was nervous he wouldn't get back in time to catch any of the scrimmage but he was home by 3:30 and we hightailed it to Fox Cities Stadium.

The taxi squad scrimmage was kind of like being at spring training. The players worked different positions in the field and took swings of the bat. A pitcher pitched a set number of pitches and types of pitches. There was a real minor league umpire calling balls and strikes. I figured a local umpire would have that job. Not every position was covered on the field at all times. The coaches set up different scenarios and that's what they focused on during the half inning.

We were able to watch about an hour of baseball. For $5, it was cheap entertainment. There were probably about 20 people there. Not many foul balls were hit but the one that was, I tried to get but someone else beat me to it.

I did stamp in. I got the first stamp at Nueroscience Field at Fox Cities Stadium since 2019. I was surprised that the stamp had 2021 because some of them did not. Getting a stamp was the real reason I wanted to go to a taxi squad game but it was fun never the less.

The hubby enjoyed it and if more games fit in his scheduled, we probably would have gone to more. It was ALMOST like being at spring training. 

Hopefully we don't need to have any more taxi squads in future seasons but we would definitely go back if we had the opportunity. 

Now we wait for the minor league season to begin and figure out when we can go to to a T-rats game this season.