Spring Training Game - Red Sox versus Orioles

Monday the 7th

One more day of being in vacation mode and we had tickets to a spring training game, the Red Sox versus the Orioles at Palm City Stadium in Ft Myers. With a 1:05 start time we ran a few errands up on Pine ridge and then headed for the I-75 freeway headed north. It’s only about 30 miles from Naples to Ft Myers. We got off the freeway at exit 138 and drove west on Martin Luther King Blvd the four miles into town. Turning left on Fowler Ave and then right on Edison Ave we reached the stadium and parked.

Unfortunately, unlike yesterday when we parked right in front of the ticket office, today we were several football field lengths away from the stadium and then we had to walk all the way around to the opposite side to Will Call before turning entering the stadium. We had seats in the bleachers out along the right field line. Not bad seats, we were up about 8 rows above the grass seating so we had a pretty good view of all the action.

With the sun out and nothing but blue sky, we knew we were going to cook. So we decided to eat lunch before the start of the game – mondo philly style foot long polish dogs with the works! Perfect! Washed down with a cold drink it was an excellent lunch for being at the ball game.

The Red Sox got off to a quick start with three runs in the first and another in the second. The Orioles responded in the third making it 4 to 1, Reds. But after a couple of scoreless innings, the Orioles came back with a vengeance, picking up three in the sixth and another run in the seventh inning to go ahead.
Because of the sun we migrated down to the food vendors and got a couple of ice creams.

With our ice cream we went back to the main field side walkway and leaned up against the bleacher wall in the shade for another inning. But a late Rally in the eight brought the Sox back on top, putting away the O’s 6 to 5. It was a great afternoon and we enjoyed the game.

We walked back to the car, headed for the freeway and made it home by 5:00 PM. Since we had been trying not to keep too much food in the house we drove to Pelican Larry’s for dinner then down to the theater to see the movie “Rango”. Tooo, too funny. Poignant and brilliant the story line steals from all sorts of venues from Star Wars (the rebel alliance flying through the canyons on the death star to Clint Eastwood in Unforgiving. We laughed a lot and had a good time which is what movies are all about. And with that we headed home to collapse and head to bead early.

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