Saturday Night Baseball: O's vs. the Nats

My friend, Nikhil called me on Saturday night with an offer that a die-hard AL East fan could not refuse:  free tickets and a road trip to Oriole Park at Camden Yards (home to me, but to others…it is Oriole mecca).   So, we drove in the midst of a traffic jam on 495, getting lost in a real bad neighborhood in Baltimore before we found parking, and arriving at the game, just in time to enjoy some real BBQ (Boog’s, that is, and for a ex-Marylander, hon, we call this true Pit BBQ at its finest) and to see the Nats crack off the first homerun of the game.

As a ex-Marylander and a Yankees fan, I took to cheering for the AL East to dominate the NL, while Nikhil cheered for the Nats.  Too bad for Nikhil, he was surrounded by the home team with only a few Nats fans in our section.  The crowd roared “Charge” before Nick Markakis came to bat, and I knew I was officially home when we sang, “Thank God, I’m a Country Boy” during seventh inning stretch.  It was just awesome being back at the ballpark that I love the most to watch a Beltway rivalry really take shape.  The O’s slammed the Nats 6-3 before a raucous crowd.