Over the 'Edg' - UPDATED

Colorado Springs leading the Reno Aces 11-8 in the bottom of the 7th. Reno had just put 6 runs up in the top of the inning and with their history of comebacks against the Sox things were being to look iffy. 

Brendan Harris flies to right for the 1st out and now Sky Sox reliever Edgmer Escalona comes to the plate against Aces' reliever Joe Patterson. Should be a quick out. In 3 major league plate appearances with the Rockies he is 0-3 with 3 K's. In 3 career minor league plate appearances he was 0-3 with 3 K's. Escalona takes ball one. He takes strike one. It doesn't look like he even wants to swing, but there is something in the air. Again, there's always something in the air when Edgmer is in the game. Whether he's hitting, pitching or just wandering around (and he does wander around a lot). That something, whatever it is, just seems to follow him. So, here comes the 3rd pitch, a fastball down the middle, and low and behold Edgmer crushes it, I mean just crushes it, for a no doubter over the left-field wall:

Escalona swings? And...

..."I don't believe what I just saw."

First career homer! Hell, first career hit. Double-Hell, first career contact that goes into fair territory. And does he humbly lower his head and just run around the bases? Not our Edgmer! He throws his hands in the air and watches the ball travel out of site (I was so in shock about him getting a hit I stopped shooting for a second and missed capturing the throwing of the hands) and then jumps, hops and skips his way toward 1st base:

0-6 with 6 K's turns into 1-7, 6 K's and a bomb...

...so now I can STRUT!

As Edgmer rounds the bases Reno is chirping. Joe Patterson is chirping. Aces' manager Bret Butler is chirping (Reno is the team that complained and got Escalona suspended for 8 games for having things and stuff on his person while pitching, so there is no love lost between them). 
 
'How dare you show us up!'
'What about the unwritten rules?'
'Won't someone please think of the children?'. 

Well. How about writing out those 'rules' or shutting the f*ck up? Kay-riste! Don't want a guy showing you up? How about not letting a guy who's 0 for life hit a bomb off of you? That might be a good start. UPDATED - I seemed to have totally missed that Edgmer pointed and shouted at the Reno dugout as he rounded 3rd base. In hind site I guess that would have the tendency to inflame the situation just a bit. So in regard to the above rant, never mind.

'Let me slide right in here with my own bad self!'

The patriotic bunting was there for Edgmer.
And his homer!

For Edgmer. You're golden moment enshrined forever!