I used to play softball in school, but that was when everybody had to participate in at least one sports. I also remember joining the baseball club because one of the seniors whom I adored very much played for my school. And most importantly, she was the pitcher (you know how much attention is paid to the pitcher? It’s apparently THE most important player in the team!).
Anyway, a group of us from the Wetlands Institute drove almost an hour from Stone Harbor to Atlantic City to watch a baseball game between the home team (Atlantic City Surf) and the Quebec team. It was my first LIVE baseball game, and I was excited about it :D
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four markers called bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team (the batting team) take turns hitting while the other team (the fielding team) tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and hope to score on a teammate’s hit. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team gets three outs. One turn at bat for each team constitutes an inning; nine innings make up a professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.
- Source: Baseball @ Wikipedia
So, there are usually 9 innings in each baseball game. But if there was no winner (a tie), an extra inning would be played, until there is a winner. Guess how many extra innings we got to watch the other day?! :D FIVE extra innings!
And every time there was a switch between the teams, Splash the mascot would make an appearance on the field. Also, kids participated in a couple of 30-second games during the switch.
The game started at 7pm and ended at midnight, and guess what?! At the end of the game, there was a fireworks display which lasted for about 15 minutes!
P/S: Thank you very much, Dr. Roger Wood, for taking us to the game!
More pictures taken at the baseball game.
Attending a baseball game or any live game for that matter was definitely an American experience for me. Do you have hotdog at the game? :-)
Nice picture! Sounds like you had a fun time.
We’ve never been to a live baseball game. Even though it’s supposed to be “America’s game,” most people don’t seem to pay much attention to it, at least the people that I know. However, there is a new baseball park in the Little Rock area and our daughter and her boyfriend are planning to go to some games since it’s only a few miles from there house. Who knows? We might join them.
Nope Leah, I was too hungry to only eat a hot dog. But I had a chicken finger basket! :D
Hi Mike, you should join them for a game, and see if you liked it. The ambient of the game, the cheering and shouting for a team at a live game is definitely different from watching the game on, say, TV.
I’m glad you got to go to the ball park and catch a game. I love watching baseball live, it is just so much fun :)
Sounds like you had a blast. I’ve only been to one baseball game and I live in america. I was to young though to remember the experience. Lets say its sooo boring to watch on tv. How much does it differ from tv to real life? even if your not into baseball that much?
I love fireworks, though i dont understand baseball all that well. Never was much into sports.