This and a series of Matthew Monday posts will document the baseball games Matthew and I attended this year. I already mentioned our Father’s Day game at the Staten Island FerryHawks, which is an Independent Minor League game. Today I’ll mention our game down in Baltimore on July 28th between my beloved Baltimore Orioles and the San Diego Padres. We even got to see former Orioles Manny Machado who had come up as an Orioles and who was traded—traded because he was going to be a free agent and Orioles weren’t going to pay him that huge salary he wanted—in 2017. He got a warm reception.
Here
are some pictures from the game. We were
sitting in left field, not far from the foul pole and just a couple of rows
behind the left field wall.
I
always love a picture of the Warehouse, that great brick building that was
built in Babe Ruth’s day and is situated right behind the right field stands.
And
here’s a couple of pictures of father and son both wearing Orioles tee
shirts.
For the record, Matthew is not, to his father’s dissatisfaction, an Orioles fan.
The game was great. We got to see the Orioles win 8-6 with a big six run inning. Now it was Adley Rutschman Bobblehead Day, and we each got an Adley Bobblehead doll. Now Adley is a switch hitter, so they had two sets of bobblehead dolls, one batting right handed, the other left handed. We had hoped that between the two of us, we would come away with one of each kind. Unfortunately we did. We both got a right handed batting Adley. Now, where we were sitting, there was a man who had a whole bunch of boxes with Adley Bobblehead dolls. At least six, if not more. And I have no idea how and where he got them, and I was afraid to ask. He asked if we wanted to trade one for the left handed batting Adely and we did! So we got an Adley Bobblehead batting from each side of the plate.
Here’s
a picture of both Adley dolls.
The black jersey is Adley left handed and the Orange is right handed. We'll add these to our collection on baseball bobblehead dolls/
A
fun time was had! You can get the detailed box score of this game here.
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