Camden Yards hosted Army-Navy Baseball Doubleheader; More On Schedule
Sunday March 25, was the start of a beautiful relationship between the Baltimore Orioles and the Navy Midshipmen.
In February it was announced that the Orioles would be hosting the Army-Navy baseball doubleheader after the Boston Red Sox announced that they are hosting Game 1 of the Army-Navy series (Army Black Knights as the home team) to come in April. Then in August, the Orioles will have a “Navy Day”, as they will be distributing over 1,000 tickets to The United States Naval Academy. A Major League Baseball preseason game has been slated to be held at The Academy’s Max Bishop Stadium between the Orioles and another team, starting in March 2019.
As a doubleheader, on Sunday, the games go to seven innings each. Just our luck, the first game went to 10 innings, with a 23 minute snow delay. Yes, a SNOW delay.
Remember the Chicago Cubs/Cleveland Indians Game 7 game, with the rain delay? There was not much happening prior to the delay, but once the game resumed, boy the momentum had changed! This is exactly how Game 1 of yesterday proceeded. The delay was in-between the sixth and seventh innings, so when the T7 rolled around, 23 minutes later, Navy’s RHP Colin Brady let’er rip with three up, three down; two strike outs. Offensively in B7, Zach Biggers tied the game with a two-out RBI single. Even the fans who stayed, were on their feet cheering; completely different atmosphere than before. Unfortunately Navy lost 5-3 in 10, but us fans enjoyed every moment of the vivacious seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth innings.
Due to the weather, and how late it was getting, my best friend and I left before the second game started. The result of that game was Army 8-2.
Army walked away with the sweep, but the Midshipmen will see them again on April 20, at Fenway Park.
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