I currently am in the D.C area on vacation and last night I took in the Sox game against the Orioles. I just thought I'd share some of what I saw with all you guys here at Soxtalk.

 

Getting to the park was a snap. The 295 Bypass led straight to Camden Yards ( Which is right next to where the Ravens play football so their parking areas overlap ( I guess the designers never expect the Ravens and Orioles to be playing at the same time ). As for the park itself it is everything it is cracked up to be. The concourses are wide, the scenery beautiful and aside from a single loudmouth drunken college kid, the fans I talked to were polite ( even though I was dressed in my Sox jacket ) and very knowlegeable about the team and baseball overall ).

 

I wanted to get some pics of the place but me, in my infinite wisdom, left my camera at the hotel.

 

As for the game itself? Well, you all know what happened. You can hand the blame for that loss squarely at the feet of Kelly Dransfeld who by booting that grounder , opened the floodgates for the Orioles "O". By the bottom of the 8th I didnt see any more point in staying so I split and made it back to my hotel, which was a good 50 miles away, in under an hour.

 

That's about it really. I would go again tonight but I'm driving to NYC in the morning and I dont want to stay up all that late.

I was at Camden the last two nights. Gettysburg is about 1:15 away from Baltimore. I won't be there tonight (finally f'ing schoolwork caught up with me). I'll be watching it on ESPN.

 

But as far as last night, I chalk the poor performance up to it simply being one of those nights where no one really felt like playing hard. Not to make excuses, but hey, it happens when you play 162 games, you just hope it happens very rarely. It was disappointing to me, just because it was one of the few games I'll see them play in person this season.

 

Basically you combine a couple booted ground balls, a couple bad throws by Miguel, the pitchers (again) being wild and completly falling asleep with runners on base (Roberts tied an Oriole team record with 4 SBs last night), and the offense was mostly dead, and it was just one of those nights.

 

Hopefully the Sox come back strong tonight and win the series. Any series win on the road is still damn good.

 

PS - about Camden, I've been there a total of about 12 or 13 times (all but 4 of which were when the Sox were there) and I always enjoy the stadium, regardless of how the Sox do. The park is beautiful, the food is great, (not as good as Comiskey though) and the harbor area of Baltimore is very nice too.

I was at Camden the last two nights.  Gettysburg is about 1:15 away from Baltimore.  I won't be there tonight (finally f'ing schoolwork caught up with me).  I'll be watching it on ESPN.

 

But as far as last night, I chalk the poor performance up to it simply being one of those nights where no one really felt like playing hard.  Not to make excuses, but hey, it happens when you play 162 games, you just hope it happens very rarely.  It was disappointing to me, just because it was one of the few games I'll see them play in person this season.

 

Basically you combine a couple booted ground balls, a couple bad throws by Miguel, the pitchers (again) being wild and completly falling asleep with runners on base (Roberts tied an Oriole team record with 4 SBs last night), and the offense was mostly dead, and it was just one of those nights. 

 

Hopefully the Sox come back strong tonight and win the series.  Any series win on the road is still damn good. 

 

PS - about Camden, I've been there a total of about 12 or 13 times (all but 4 of which were when the Sox were there) and I always enjoy the stadium, regardless of how the Sox do.  The park is beautiful, the food is great, (not as good as Comiskey though) and the harbor area of Baltimore is very nice too.

I'm with you about Loaiza. He wasn't fooling anybody last night. The O's were hitting ropes all over the park & if Dransfeldt hadn't booted that grounder they probably would have just got to him the next inning.

 

We'll get 'em tonight though.

Sounds like a fun time, minus the loss of course.

Im going to Toronto this weekend, so hopfully ill have the same kind of report, with a win of corse.

Too bad it's not toonie tuesday.