Beavers Baseball

I'm from a baseball family. My father umpires high school and college ball, and I've been watching baseball on tv and in person for as long as I can remember (I definitely remember games in the Houston Astrodome). So when I found out that Babson has a baseball team and that the field is closer to Olin's campus than it is to the rest of Babson, I was very excited. And yesterday was opening day!

The game was at Babson's field, but Worcester Polytechnic (WPI) was the home team, which made the scoreboard a little confusing. The scoreboard lists "Visitor" and "Babson," but yesterday the "Visitor" score was Babson's and the "Babson" score was WPI. And Babson won, 19-6!

The Visitor score is actually Babson's. Hooray Beavers!

As you might guess from the score, it wasn't a terribly good game. Babson's pitcher had a rocky first inning before settling down and pitching six more solid innings, and another pitcher came in for the last two. WPI's pitching didn't fare nearly so well.

Still, I was really happy to watch baseball for the first time in months, and I'm looking forward to the rest of the season! I'm going to go to as many home games as I can. This week is spring break, so the next game I can go to is a week from Monday. Go Babson Beavers!

Babson has a runner on second!

Before the bottom of the eighth