The First home game

Well yesterday we had our first game of the season. It was against San Marino, who won it all last year. We had the biggest crowd in Reggio history with an exciting 300 people! Baseball isn't exactly a fan favorite sport here or even Italians past time. We ended up loosing the game 1-0.....bummer huh. Since the games start at 9pm, a firework show kicked things off right. We had a famous opera singer sing the italian national anthem which was actually reall cool. Then the first pitch was thrown out by the mayor of Reggio......a perfect strike. The game was on TV and aired all over Italy. We were supposed to play today but it was cancelled due to the latest earthquake that occured 5 hours south of Reggio Emilia. They announced that today would be a day of mourning for the victums that died in the quake. So we will play a double header on sat. in San Marino! All in all baseball is the same game in any country. For some reason it just seems more fun over here!!!