Friday, May 30
Our motel, the Sheraton, is about midway between the Inner Harbor and Camden Yards. What could be more perfect?
The weather in Baltimore was hot, sunny and breezy. We walked over to the Harbor area and had lunch at the Pot Belly Sandwich Shop. Rodney and I went on tours of a WWII submarine, the Torsk, and a Civil War battleship, the USS Constellation. Both very interesting, they both had fairly big roles in their respective wars. Brian went to the ESPN zone to play while we were touring.
Red Sox nation was well represented in Baltimore. We saw people in Red Sox clothes by the dozen, maybe even hundreds, at the hotel and harbor area. The town was just mobbed with Sox fans.
After a swim in our ridiculously tiny but refreshing pool we headed over to the ball park. Our seats were pretty far back on the first base side, but still afforded a great view of the action. And action there was!! The game was tied 2-2 at the end of nine and ended up going 13 innings! Finally the Orioles made a few errors that the Sox capitalized on in the 13th and the Sox ended up winning 5-2. It was a fun game. Manny Ramirez was one home run shy of 500 so every time he came up to bat the entire stadium went wild, cheering, taking pictures of every swing, etc. Unfortunately he was unable to get a home run in 5 at bats.
We got to see 7 Red Sox pitchers: Josh Beckett, Hadeki Okijima, Manny Delcarmen, Javier Lopez, Craig Hansen, Mike Timlin and the great and greatly entertaining closer Jonathan Papelbon. The game ended right before midnight and many people, including us (of course!) stayed until the last out.
Tomorrow we are off to our last venue, Philadelphia. Also one of our shortest legs, just over 2 hours- hopefully.
2 comments:
Phew! Those last 4 innings were tense and exciting! I, too, was watching until the last out! Too bad you didn't get to see Manny's 500th.... oh well. The pictures you are posting are awesome!
So who is in the picture of thecrowd on the big TV screen? Any of the Citro clan captured by the ball park cameras? Great game - hope you have a great time in Philly...I recognize a lot of the places in Baltimore you went to from my trip there last year. I stayed in the Holiday Inn just around the corner from you.
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