Fort Worth Cats Baseball - Day Game pics!

[Joe_Lorenzini]

After reading Captain Tom's post on today's day game I had to venture out and hang with the Cats for a little while. What a beautiful day for a ballgame!!

Anyway, it was full of action complete with a beaning and bench clearing, animated discussion. It was also a very good chance to try some new shots.

All taken with a D300 and 70-200VR:

So here's how it starts out: First, the batter gets beaned (this is the ball dropping after hitting him):


The benches clear and the Cats coach gets into it with Tiny here...


And here's the coach getting ejected while the others watch on. Tiny's hidden behind the tall Cats player:


Here's an experiment I did trying to use the batter/ump to frame the pitcher:


Here's on I like (but a total failure as a sports image) because of the bat splintering. You can see the ball just leaving the frame to the left...


He was safe:


Another one I like because you can see the ball through the action while viewing the pitcher, batter, ump and catcher. Fun but still a failure.


Gotta like the gull-wing throw:


Got lots of great action today. A very fun ballpark to shoot at!!

Joe

[CaptainTom]

Interesting Joe.
It's always fun to try new things and new perspectives. I like 'em.

CaptainTom added 0 Minutes and 39 Seconds later...Double Post Merged Below

Guess I'm just getting toooooo oooooold

[dtscds]

And just think, you could have spent the day chained to a desk inside a cubicle doing generic, paper-pushing, business type work...
Looks good to me.

[AndrewCCM]

Originally Posted by dtscds

And just think, you could have spent the day chained to a desk inside a cubicle doing generic, paper-pushing, business type work...
Looks good to me.

Or out at the Byron Nelson getting sunburned like crazy. Man I hurt.

Thanks for sharing Joe!

[Davidtxs]

Great stuff that is a cool little park to shoot at

[Joe_Lorenzini]

Originally Posted by AndrewCCM

Or out at the Byron Nelson getting sunburned like crazy. Man I hurt.

Thanks for sharing Joe!

Very cool! Let's see some of those shots (sad news about Lefty though).

Joe

[Westx]

Joe great shots.