13 innings!
When you take a baseball assignment, you know you're in for a long night, since the games average about 3 hours in time. But on top of that, there is always the "risk" of extra inning games. Yesterday, I shot the longest game in my short photo career: it took the White Sox 13 innings (and about 4.5 hours) to knock off the visiting Minnesota Twins.
As usual, it was a pretty ordinary baseball game. Shoot the pitchers, shoot some action:
But as it turns out. It was anything but ordinary. In fact, it was historic. The two teams entered the ninth inning tied at four. The two teams left the ninth inning tied at ten! In the history of major league baseball, no two teams have ever scored six runs each to keep a game tied and force extra innings. While it was a historic as far as comebacks go, the photos from the ninth inning were anything but. The weird thing about shooting baseball is that just because there is a lot of scoring, doesn't mean there's going to be a lot of action. Especially if there are home runs involved, because all you get is a picture of somebody swinging the bat, or players congratulating each other at home.... pretty boring!
So onto extra innings. Shooting extra innings in baseball is kind of annoying. Because the game can end on one swing, you have to shoot every swing, just to make sure you get the photo of the player who gets the game-winning hit. So you get a ton of super repetitive photos of different batters swinging that will never be used in any publication. To put into perspective of how many extra photos I ended up taking last night, in an average 9-inning MLB game, I end up taking 525 photos (I calculated this out about a month ago because a friend was curious). But in yesterday's 13 inning game, I shot 1,094 photos, 611 of which were taken from the 9th inning and beyond.
On the flip side, chances are pretty good that after the game-winning hit photo, you get a really nice jubilation photo, like this one where Luis Terrero got mobbed by his teammates after scoring the winning run in the bottom of the 13th.
As usual, it was a pretty ordinary baseball game. Shoot the pitchers, shoot some action:
But as it turns out. It was anything but ordinary. In fact, it was historic. The two teams entered the ninth inning tied at four. The two teams left the ninth inning tied at ten! In the history of major league baseball, no two teams have ever scored six runs each to keep a game tied and force extra innings. While it was a historic as far as comebacks go, the photos from the ninth inning were anything but. The weird thing about shooting baseball is that just because there is a lot of scoring, doesn't mean there's going to be a lot of action. Especially if there are home runs involved, because all you get is a picture of somebody swinging the bat, or players congratulating each other at home.... pretty boring!
So onto extra innings. Shooting extra innings in baseball is kind of annoying. Because the game can end on one swing, you have to shoot every swing, just to make sure you get the photo of the player who gets the game-winning hit. So you get a ton of super repetitive photos of different batters swinging that will never be used in any publication. To put into perspective of how many extra photos I ended up taking last night, in an average 9-inning MLB game, I end up taking 525 photos (I calculated this out about a month ago because a friend was curious). But in yesterday's 13 inning game, I shot 1,094 photos, 611 of which were taken from the 9th inning and beyond.
On the flip side, chances are pretty good that after the game-winning hit photo, you get a really nice jubilation photo, like this one where Luis Terrero got mobbed by his teammates after scoring the winning run in the bottom of the 13th.
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