Not sure what my Dad was doing a moment ago, but clearly he and Mom are having a laugh at ending up on the big screen.  In the background Artie is getting his dance moves on.  I think this might have been when the loudspeakers were playing the Village People's YMCA during one of the breaks between innings.

Swing and a miss for Rox third baseman Mike Torres.  The Rox/Spirit game also went into extra innings, because the Rox rallied in the 8th inning and came back strong, picking up three runs and tying the game.  And so it remained 3 to 3 until the Rox scored a 4th run in the 13th inning… and the crowd went wild.

The July-9 game detailed at the Rox official site.

The Rox are at bat here.  One thing I found interesting was that here in their home stadium, as each hometeam batter came up, a snippet of his favorite song was played over the loudspeakers.

By the 4th inning the Rox hadn't scored and the North Shore Spirit was up 3 runs.  My pop told me that the Spirit had beat the Rox the night before, 6 to 0.

Here's my brother-in-law Artie all decked out in brilliant yellow.

Eventually Mom and Dad showed up and then we waited for Donna and her crew to arrive.

Apparently you can buy tickets to Rox games online and print them yourself, which is what my sister Donna did.

The box seats were above and behind us, and gave us nice shady cover. 

My folks eventually got themselves on the big screen of the stadium scoreboard by acting like goofballs, but they had a blast.  I never realized how much of a kick they got out of this kind of thing, but they loved singing along with the songs, clapping, stomping, and so forth.

That green and blue placard in the top right showed the score from the Red Sox vs. the White Sox game played on July 9'th.  We shook our heads in disbelief as the number of innings in that game went all the way up to 19.