All-Star Summer: Futures Game

On Sunday July 12, the first of three straight days of ASG events took place at Great American Ball Park.  Leading off this afternoon was the Futures Game pitting the best and brightest minor league prospects in a "USA vrs the World" format.  This was to be the only GABP ASG event which saw any minimal amount of rainfall during the proceedings.  The photographs I took of the Futures Game predominately were of pre-game activities and of Reds farm system prospects, all from the perspective of my seat location throughout the duration of ASG events.

My panoramic skillz leave much to be desired and fall far short of the standard of panoramas submitted to Heavy Artillery by Big Strick.  The grandstand near the left field foul pole gets a little wobbly near the middle of the photo, above.

Team USA (USA!  USA!  USA!) took the field along the right field foul line to warm up prior to the game:

Luckily for me, two of the Reds participants manned a position in the right field corner shagging batting practice fly balls:

Highlighted in the black box, above, are pitcher Amir Garrett, left, and outfielder Kyle Waldrop, right.  Playing on the JumboTron was a pre-recorded interview MLB Network's Heidi Watney conducted of Kyle Waldrop. 

Amir Garrett walked over to the railing to interact with some fans, above.

Batting in the first inning for the World Team (boooooo World!), Reds farmhand Yorman Rodriguez faced Lucas Giolito.

Above, Kyle Waldrop warms up in right field.  In the second inning, Yorman Rodriguez was stationed in right:

In the third inning, Amir Garrett was called upon to hurl for Team USA:

Upon us all a little rain fell shortly thereafter and so away went the camera for the remainder of the afternoon.

Roll the credits!