The Thunder play at Arm & Hammer Park. Right past the right field wall is the Delaware River, which George Washington crossed on Christmas Night 1776 to surprise the Hessian mercenaries the next day. The only other interesting thing about Arm & Hammer Park was that they had pictures of some Yankees that had played for the Thunder (like Derek Jeter on a rehab assignment). The Thunder had Dante Bichette Jr. Playing first base for them. That was really the only name that sounded familiar from the two teams. The Thunder took a 2-0 lead in the first inning and never trailed. Leading 2-1 in the fourth inning, the Thunder scored three runs on a ball that didn't get out of the infield. The bases were loaded. It took a diving stop from the second baseman to keep a grounder from getting through. But then he tried to flip it to the shortstop covering second and threw it away. New Hampshire got the ball and tried to throw out the second runner at home plate and threw it away. That allowed the third runner to score. It got interesting in the ninth as New Hampshire scored two to make it 5-4, but Trenton held on for the win.
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| This was the view I had for most of the game. As you can see, I could have sat pretty much wherever I wanted to. |
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| George Washington crossed this guy. |
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| They had Andy Pettitte, Gary Sanchez, and Brett Gardner on the other side. |
To eat, I had a pork roll. When I googled food at Arm & Hammer Park, that was one of the things that came up. It turned out to pretty much just be a glorified ham and cheese. It was fine, but definitely nothing exciting. I was hoping to enjoy some New Jersey beer (which my googling indicated would be available), but they were only serving like Bud Light and Michelob and some other not good beer. There was a bar and another concession stand that looked like there was a decent selection and both were closed. It was probably because it was a game that started at 10:30 in the morning and you had lots of kids on school trips there for the game. But that's going to hurt Arm & Hammer Park in my rankings. In fact, it's going last on the list (which I'll update in my next post on a minor league game).
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| Like I said, a glorified ham and cheese. |
So I didn't get to drink New Jersey beer. I have a trip to visit Adam in New Jersey coming up this summer. So hopefully I'll get to cross New Jersey off the list. With the help of several old blog posts, here's my beer list by state in the order that I've been to the states (not necessarily the order that I've consumed beer from the states) to the best of my knowledge:
1. New York- Bluepoint, Sand City, Brooklyn, Bronx, etc.
2. Pennsylvania- Yuengling
3. Ohio- Great Lakes Brewing Company, Rivertown Brewery
4. Massachusetts- Sam Adams, Harpoon
5. Delaware- Iron Hill, Fordham and Dominion Brewing Company
6. Maryland- Flying Dog Brewery
7. Illinois- Goose Island, I think I had one that wasn't an Anheuser Busch-InBev beer last year when I was in Chicago
8. Georgia- Sweetwater Grass Monkey
9. Michigan- Bell's
10. California- Point the Way IPA (Golden Road Brewing), Coronado Brewing
11. North Carolina- Olde Hickory Pale Ale, Foothills
12. Colorado- Boulder
13. Wisconsin- Leinenkugel's
14. Texas- Shiner (probably some other stuff too when I visited Wilhelm)
15. Washington- Fremont
16.. Missouri- Schlafly, Boulevard
17. Utah- Some beer at a Jazz game, I don't remember what I drank, but I remember wondering how available beer would be in a Mormon state, but I do have a picture of me holding a beer at the game.
18. New Mexico- Some beer at an Isotopes game, I don't know what it was, but I mentioned drinking a local beer in the blog post
19. Alabama- Yellowhammer Brewing
20. Minnesota- Surly, Summit
21. North Dakota- Fargo Brewing Company
22. Montana- Uberbrew
23. Idaho- Crooked Fence Barrelhouse Welcome to Idaho, Grand Teton Ale 208
24. Oregon- Widmer Brothers
25. Maine- Shipyard
26. Vermont- Long Trail
27. Louisiana- Courtyard Brewery
28. Mississippi- Biloxi Brewing Company
29. Hawaii- Waikiki Brewing Company
30. South Carolina- Palmetto Amber
So as far as I remember, I have not had a beer from these states:
1. New Jersey
2. Connecticut
3. Florida
4. Rhode Island
5. Virginia
6. Indiana- I mean I did go to Notre Dame, but I don't remember drinking much craft beer when I was there other than Sam Adams
7. Kentucky
8. Tennessee
9. New Hampshire
10. Nevada
11. Arizona
12. Wyoming
13. Arkansas
14. Oklahoma
15. Kansas
16. West Virginia
17. Iowa
18. Nebraska
19. South Dakota- I did taste some wine at a South Dakota winery, but wine is stupid.
20. Alaska
I feel fairly confident about being able to cross off at least three of these states before the end of the year with some trips I have coming up. If you know of any beers from any of these states that would be easy for me to get, please let me know.
