Day twenty six - Friday

We elected not to go into DC today. Ann did some laundry and I cleaned the wheels on the motor home. It was nice not having to take a bus and train into town.

Late in the afternoon we drove to Baltimore to see a ball game. It was 30 miles from the Campground to Oriole Park at Camden Field. We had tickets we bought about a month before we left home on this trip. The last place Orioles played the second place Yankees.

By the 3rd inning it was four to two, Yankees. In the 5th it was seven to six, Yankees. In the 8th the score was nine to six, Yankees. It looked like the home team wasn't going to win this one. A-Rod and Johnny Damon both had hit home runs. However, in the 9th, the Orioles loaded the bases and Jay Payton hit a triple to tie the score.

In the 10th inning the Yankees loaded the bases after Jeter hit a double and the Orioles intentionally walked two Yankees, A-Rod and Matusi, with one out. Two fly balls later the Orioles are out of the inning. In the bottom of the 10th the Oriole's Tike Redman hit a double with one out and the Yankees returned the favor by intentially walking two Orioles. This loaded the bases with one out. The next batter struck out. This brought up Melvin Mora who laid down a perfect suicide squeeze bunt to win the game. Very exciting!

Ater the game there was a fireworks show. It seems we had tickets to the fan appreciation game. Very nice fireworks show.

A little over an hour later we were back at the Campground. It was 12:30 a.m.