Night game tonight (gates open at 4:30 - which means about 3 hours of boozing at the tiki hut in left field before the game even starts!), so you're getting a photo from the last game.

MVP! MVP! MVP!

Also, a bonus story:

At the Phillies-Pirates game on Monday, the number of Philly fans who traveled to the game easily outnumbered the number of Pirates fans at their own home ballpark. Since the Phillies got creamed, and Pirates fans are apparently either (a) lethargic, or (b) absent, it was a fairly quiet ballpark. But in the 8th inning, a little kid (probably about 5 or so) decided he could turn the tide for the Phightins, and started hollering "Let's - Go - Phil - lies", with the appropriate pause for the "clap-clap-clapclapclap" afterwards. He did this about 5 or 6 times in a row, and I turned to my friend and said "Over/under on him hitting 35 times in a row without stopping". She took the over - and it's a good thing, because we stopped counting after he hit 100. He kept it up through the rest of the 8th and the 9th inning, solid. Did not stop, did not take a breath. Eventually, I think even the (few) Pirates fans in attendance joined in the "clap-clap-clapclapclap"ing out of a mixture of annoyance and awe.

Happy ending: even though the Phils lost (boo!), Wes Helms walked up after the game and gave the kid both of his batting gloves.

For everyone who's looking for a home during today's ST game, Ian at Sox and Dawgs is doing an open thread!