Relay

On This Date: Photo taken 9/15/2011

Lansing Lugnut shortstop Peter Mooney relays the ball to first base. The baserunner, who's out, is Ronny Gil of the Quad Cities River Bandits; Mooney's throw would not get QC batter/runner Oscar Taveras.

The Midwest League's regular season ends on Labor Day, and is followed by a three-tiered playoff that ends in mid-month. In 2011 Lansing hosted Quad Cities (they play in Davenport) on September 15 for the second game of a best-of-five series.

The Bandits won the game by a 5-3 score, putting them up on the series 2 wins to no losses. They'd wrap the championship up at home the next night.

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Two pics today. Because I want to tell two stories.

Just a reminder that I take lots of photographs at baseball games, only a few of which have shown up in this project.

Number of pix taken on various September 15ths: 1653
Year of oldest photo: 2005
How I Rated the Date's Photographs:
. 1 Star: 21
. 2 Stars: 124
. 3 Stars: 1236
. 4 Stars: 242
. 5 Stars: 30

I've also got 10 photographs taken by my brother, who was en route from Michigan to Minnesota. They were apparently taken in Chicago.