Date: 25 May 2019
Location: Florence, KY
Stadium: UC Health Stadium
League: Frontier League
Level: Independent
Teams: Southern Illinois Miners at Florence Freedom
Nice evening for a ball game. Temps were in the Low 80’s, with one small thunderstorm that passed by just north of the stadium.
This is the first stadium I’ve been to that has artificial turf covering the entire filed. This includes the areas that are normally dirt. The turf in the grassy areas was a nice green color, and the turf covering the dirt areas is brown. Makes me wonder how it feels to have to slide on the turf.
There was plenty of offense in this game, except the Freedom just couldn’t push many runs across. Even with 9 hits they lost to the visitors 6-1.
The highlight for me a contest that was held by placing a fan on top of the right field fence. If a Freedom batter hit a home run and hit this fan, they would win (I think) $100. Too bad nobody hit him. 🙂
Mike the Map 