fh_trips | Camden Yards, Sunday afternoon

Take your seats. Watch batting practice. Get an autograph if you can.

Isabel sat in her seat and opened the box of Cracker Jacks she'd bought. They were tasty. But probably would be better with tabasco.

Anders settled down in his seat with a hot dog in each hand, a giant soda in front of him, a bag of peanuts, a box of Cracker Jacks, and his baseball glove at his feet. He also had a twelve-pack of different-colored pens ~~to steal Willow's schtick~~ and a clipboard with a set of scorecards (http://www.baseballscorecard.com/downloads/pcscorecard.pdf) on his lap. Who, him? Prepared?

Nah.

Even if he was getting slightly odd looks for being decked out in ~~Los Angeles Angels of~~ Anaheim Angels gear at Camden Yards.

Peter took his seat, drank his soda quickly, and placed the empty cup in front of a seat in the next row. Then he opened his bag of cheap, bought-outside-the-stadium peanuts and prepared to toss some peanut shells into the cup. He always enjoyed this game.

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Sawyer had always liked Baseball and he wanted to drag Temperence along with him so that he didn't look like a geek in his baseball shirt for the Orioles alone. He had plopped an Orioles hat on her head to make her look the part.

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Top 1st: Baltimore
- B. Roberts walked
- M. Mora safe at first on shortstop J. Peralta's throwing error, B. Roberts to second
- M. Tejada lined out to second
- B. Roberts stole third
- J. Conine popped out to center
- R. Hernandez grounded out to shortstop

0 runs, 0 hits, 1 errors
Baltimore 0, Cleveland 0

Anders's tongue was poking out of the corner of his mouth as he scored the game between pitches. "Base on balls . . . yay, blue pen! E-6, that's the red pen . . . Geez, frak, guys, you get the guy to third on a gift, practically, and leave him there?"

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Bottom 1st: Cleveland
- G. Sizemore struck out swinging
- J. Michaels lined out to center
- R. Belliard grounded out to shortstop

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors
Baltimore 0, Cleveland 0

"Three up, three down," Anders announced, happily marking out the rest of that inning's column in red pen on his Indians scorecard before switching to the Orioles one. "I completely approve."

Top 2nd: Baltimore
- J. Lopez grounded out to shortstop
- C. Patterson grounded out to shortstop
- K. Millar singled to left
- N. Markakis grounded out to second

0 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors
Baltimore 0, Cleveland 0

Anders glared at the three groundouts as he marked them down. "This makes my scorecard so boring."

Bottom 2nd: Cleveland
- T. Hafner struck out swinging
- V. Martinez singled to right
- J. Peralta walked, V. Martinez to second
- A. Boone flied out to left
- F. Gutierrez grounded out to pitcher

0 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors
Baltimore 0, Cleveland 0

This half of the inning, Anders got to use more pens. He was quite happy about this, but mostly happy that he didn't have to use his green pen to color in any of the little diamonds for a run scored.

- B. Roberts walked
- M. Mora homered to deep center, B. Roberts scored
- M. Tejada flied out to center
- J. Conine grounded out to shortstop
- R. Hernandez singled to third
- R. Hernandez to second on wild pitch
- J. Lopez singled to right, R. Hernandez scored
- C. Patterson popped out to second

3 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors
Baltimore 3, Cleveland 0

"I love smallball when it's working right," Anders said cheerfully. Three diamonds to color in green! Yay!

He might've been bouncing in his seat just a bit as he colored the diamonds in, yes.

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- K. Shoppach homered to deep left center
- G. Sizemore struck out swinging
- J. Michaels grounded out to pitcher
- R. Belliard singled to left
- T. Hafner singled to right, R. Belliard to third
- V. Martinez struck out swinging

1 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors
Baltimore 3, Cleveland 1

"Gah," Anders grumbled, coloring in a green diamond on the Cleveland side of his scorecard. "At least nobody was on base."

Given his Red Sox partisanship, though, he wasn't actually grudging the home run too much; Shoppach had come up in the Boston farm system and played at Fenway a bit last year, after all.

By the time Belliard got to third, though, he was panicking a little. Thankfully, Martinez struck out and Anders remembered he could breathe again.

- K. Millar grounded out to shortstop
- N. Markakis grounded out to shortstop
- B. Roberts singled to center
- B. Roberts stole second
- M. Mora walked
- M. Tejada singled to center, B. Roberts scored, M. Mora to third
- J. Conine doubled to deep right center, M. Mora scored, M. Tejada to third
- E. Mujica relieved J. Sowers
- R. Hernandez singled to left, J. Conine and M. Tejada scored, R. Hernandez out at second

4 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors
Baltimore 7, Cleveland 1

"I love a two-out rally," Anders said happily as he colored in four more green diamonds and made careful notes at the bottom of his scorecard. "Sorry, Sowers, but those last two runs are still going against you, buddy. Thanks!"

- J. Peralta grounded out to third
- A. Boone grounded out to third
- F. Gutierrez lined out to left

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors
Baltimore 7, Cleveland 1

"Aaaaaaaand another three up, three down inning!" By this time, Anders's scorecard had little arrows on it in orange ink to denote the path of the ball on all the plays, on top of exhaustive pitch count details and notes on the putouts.

- J. Lopez flied out to right center
- C. Patterson grounded out to second
- K. Millar flied out to deep right

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors
Baltimore 7, Cleveland 1

"Look, I don't want to be doing the three-up three-down thing in this half of the inning, all right?" Anders complained. "Least they got some good wood on it."

- E. Rogers at third
- K. Shoppach flied out to deep left
- G. Sizemore struck out swinging
- J. Michaels flied out to deep right

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors
Baltimore 7, Cleveland 1

- N. Markakis flied out to left
- B. Roberts struck out swinging
- E. Rogers grounded out to second

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors
Baltimore 7, Cleveland 1

- R. Belliard grounded out to shortstop
- T. Hafner walked
- V. Martinez flied out to left center
- J. Peralta singled to center, T. Hafner to second
- A. Boone struck out swinging

0 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors
Baltimore 7, Cleveland 1

- M. Tejada fouled out to first
- J. Conine flied out to right
- R. Hernandez flied out to deep center

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors
Baltimore 7, Cleveland 1

Stand up and sing!

"Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,
I don't care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don't win it's a shame.
For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,
At the old ball game."

- T. Williams relieved E. Bedard
- F. Gutierrez walked
- K. Shoppach singled to right, F. Gutierrez to second
- G. Sizemore flied out to left
- J. Michaels safe at first on third baseman E. Rogers' fielding error, F. Gutierrez to third, K. Shoppach to second
- R. Belliard grounded into double play shortstop to second to first, J. Michaels out at second

0 runs, 1 hits, 1 errors
Baltimore 7, Cleveland 1

- G. Mota relieved E. Mujica
- J. Lopez singled to center
- C. Patterson flied out to center
- K. Millar walked, J. Lopez to second
- N. Markakis singled to center, J. Lopez out at home, K. Millar to second
- L. Terrero ran for K. Millar
- B. Roberts grounded out to second

0 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors
Baltimore 7, Cleveland 1

- J. Conine at first
- L. Terrero in left field
- L. Hawkins relieved T. Williams
- T. Hafner grounded out to second
- V. Martinez doubled to deep right
- J. Peralta grounded out to second, V. Martinez to third
- A. Boone singled to left, V. Martinez scored
- F. Gutierrez doubled to deep left center, A. Boone scored
- K. Shoppach singled to center, F. Gutierrez scored
- K. Birkins relieved L. Hawkins
- G. Sizemore flied out to center

3 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors
Baltimore 7, Cleveland 4

- F. Carmona relieved G. Mota
- E. Rogers singled to right
- M. Tejada grounded into double play shortstop to second to first, E. Rogers out at second
- J. Conine doubled to deep right
- R. Hernandez grounded out to second

0 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors
Baltimore 7, Cleveland 4

- C. Ray relieved K. Birkins
- J. Michaels popped out to second
- R. Belliard grounded bunt out to pitcher
- T. Hafner singled to left center
- V. Martinez singled to center, T. Hafner to third
- B. Broussard hit for J. Peralta
- B. Broussard grounded out to second

Final Score - 7-4 Baltimore!

Yes. I am insane.

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I kind of seriously love you.

What degree of magical Fandom time are we talking about here? Are they still going to be gone all day, pretty much?

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Top of the First

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Bottom of the First

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Top of the Second

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Bottom of the Second

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Top of the Third - Balitmore

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Bottom of the Third - Cleveland

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Top of the Fourth - Baltimore

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Top of the Fifth - Baltimore

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Bottom of the Fifth - Cleveland

Top of the Sixth - Baltimore

Bottom of the Sixth - Cleveland

Top of the Seventh - Baltimore

Seventh Inning Stretch

Bottom of the Seventh - Cleveland

Top of the Eighth - Baltimore

Bottom of the Eighth - Cleveland

Top of the Ninth - Baltimore

Bottom of the Ninth - Cleveland

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