Day 2.166: Opening night

Today was the opening night of the Tri-City Valley Cats' baseball season. We were there with a group from work. The evening started off hot and sunny.

After five innings with no score and the very dark clouds rolling in, some people were leaving, but we'd seen it before and stayed to tough it out. In fact, the clouds passed us by without a drop of rain (despite major thunderstorms nearby).

In the end, all nine regular innings were run-less, but the visitors scored in the tenth - and the home team responded with their first two runs of the season. By this time it was getting late:

But the kids were still going strong, and so it was time for portraits by firework-light...