What a beautiful day for a ball game. 77 and sunny. Pittsburgh has the cheapest “good” seats in baseball and we sat about 20 rows behind home plate for what a parking lot seat would cost at Yankee stadium.
The new Stanley Cup Champion Pittsburgh Penguins were introduced before the game. They even brought the Stanley Cup with them. Very cool. It was the closest any of us had ever been to the Stanley Cup trophy. Interestingly, the Penguins beat the Detroit Red Wings in seven games in the championship series and this baseball game was against Detroit…there was a lot of jabs from the Pirate fans at the Tiger fans in attendance.
Poor pitching by A.L Central Division leading Detroit led to a 6-3 win for the Pirates. The game lasted 3 hours and unfortunately we spent 2 hours in the parking ramp after the game trying to get out. We heard that the delay was caused not only by the crowd at the baseball game but there was a Gay Pride parade going through town (not that there’s anything wrong with that). We stopped driving to our next destination about 10:30 pm to make up for some lost time.
We will be seeing Detroit in their home ballpark later in our tour.
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| June 14 |
RUNNING RECORD WINS
Home Team – 1
Away Team – 2
American League – 1
National League – 2
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