{"id":1773,"date":"2009-05-13T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/13\/northwestern-day-at-wrigley-field-padres-at-cubs\/"},"modified":"2009-05-13T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T21:06:00","slug":"northwestern-day-at-wrigley-field-padres-at-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/northwestern-day-at-wrigley-field-padres-at-cubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwestern Day at Wrigley Field: Padres at Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking outside of Wrigley Field and noticed a lot of fans wearing their Northwestern purple. I had forgotten it was Northwestern Day at Wrigley Field. However, once I remembered I also remembered that the pre-party was being held at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mullensbarandgrill.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mullen\u2019s Bar &amp; Grill Wrigleyville<\/a> \u2013 located at 3527 N. Clark St (and the \u201cofficial\u201d Northwestern bar in Chicago). When we arrived at Mullen\u2019s we were handed a coupon for one free drink or appetizer since we had attended Northwestern.<\/p>\n<p><u>The Game<\/u><br \/>The Cubs defeated the Padres 6-2 after Milton Bradley hit a two-run home run to give the Cubs a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the 6th inning. Bobby Scales added his first Major League home run in the bottom of the 7th inning.<\/p>\n<p><u>Promotions &amp; Northwestern Day<\/u><br \/>Before the game, the Cubs gave out a limited edition Ernie Banks bobblehead doll. Most fans need to arrive at least 90 minutes early for a bobblehead giveaway. I usually choose to stay at home rather than enter the ballpark early.<\/p>\n<p>Northwestern\u2019s Head Football Coach, Pat Fitzgerald, threw out the ceremonial first pitch and sang \u201cTake Me Out to the Ball Game\u201d during the Seventh-inning stretch. Fitzgerald has been on a Chicagoland sporting event tour as he also shot pucks during the Chicago Blackhawks promotion on Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking outside of Wrigley Field and noticed a lot of fans wearing their Northwestern purple. I had forgotten it was Northwestern Day at Wrigley Field. However, once I remembered I also remembered that the pre-party was being held at Mullen\u2019s Bar &amp; Grill Wrigleyville \u2013 located at 3527 N. Clark St (and the \u201cofficial\u201d Northwestern bar in Chicago). When we arrived at Mullen\u2019s we were handed a coupon for one free drink or appetizer since we had attended Northwestern.<br \/>\nThe GameThe Cubs defeated the Padres 6-2 after Milton Bradley &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}