Oct 12 2009: The End of Rocktober

Oct 12, 2009 by Rochelle

Monday I called in sick for work for a couple of reasons. First, I barely slept at all. Since I was stuck down in the big chair so that I could house the rest of my family, I just couldn’t cut it. Plus we didn’t get in until late and we had been so cold. I was feeling like crap. I also had my family in town, which wasn’t expected and I didn’t really have time to get the day off. So it was a sick day. So for most of the day we just laid around the house and tried to recover from the night before.

In the afternoon though we put all those layers back on and went back to the park for game 4 of the NLDS. This time we were on the first baseline and got to sit in the sunlight for an hour or so, which was nice. It still turned cold, but it wasn’t anything like the night before.

This game was a total heartbreaker. The Rockies had it in the bag and were down to just one strike to end the game when the Phillies made a comeback and won the game. And that was the end of what we call “Rocktober,” and the end of spending so much quality time with my dad and brother and sister-in-law.