June 20

We were planning on doing some sightseeing in New York, but the monthly street fair selling bonanza on Broadway was taking place. One Saturday a month, sellers come to New York to sell Guci, Prata, Versase and, well you get the point. It was fun way to spend the morning. Then we left the girls and headed to Philadelphia for the evening’s game.

We took a couple hour drive to Philly. This game marks the half way point of our trip.

Citizen’s Bank Field is one of the first retro fields that was built in 2004. It has some unusual angles to the outside wall that I found interesting and gave a different look to the ballpark instead of having a perfect semi-circle for the outfield wall.

Keith and I tried a couple of different sandwiches and both were delicious. We both agreed that overall CBF had the best food so far of any ball park. We sat behind homeplate in the upper row of the top deck. Every seat we have had so far on our trip has been under some sort of overhang. It was nice today because it rained the entire 5th inning and we didn’t get wet.

The game was the best one we had seen so far. Baltimore ended up with 16 hits. Philly was leading 5-3 going into the 9th inning, but three runs in the top of the 9th gave Baltimore the 6-5 win. Man, were there a lot of ticked-off Philly fans. They take their sports very seriously and this was not a kind way to lose a game for the Philly faithful.

June 20

RUNNING RECORD WINS
Home Team – 3
Away Team – 5

American League – 3
National League – 5