Giant Mallards Beach Ball

 

Yesterday when I was walking on the Lakeshore Path during my lunch break, this big, cool moth kept flying around me. It's clearly a hummingbird moth (note the fanned tail), but I can't figure out from Google what species it is. Isn't it striking?

Tonight Travalon treated me to a Mallards game. He got good seats, kind of behind home plate, and between innings they do different things like throw giant beach balls around, but there weren't any getting tossed around near us. Just as the beach ball toss was ending, one hit Travalon's beer and spilled half of it, and he scrambled after the ball and got it. Isn't it cool? We can play with it at the beach.

We have smaller beach balls we got from rock concerts, but we keep losing them. Big old Maynard will be hard to lose! 

The game started slowly, with the second baseman making a lot of errors and giving up two runs to the Dock Spiders at the top of the second, but then in the bottom of the second the Mallards scored three runs. They didn't let the Dock Spiders score again, while they racked up quite a few more scores, including a three-run homer and later a two-run homer. No grand slams, but still impressive. They ended up winning 12-2, when they dispatched the Spiders quickly at the top of the ninth. What a fun game for our first Mallards game of the 2022 season!

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