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As I typically do whenever I have travel plans, I obsessively tracked the weather forecast for each city we were visiting for the week leading up to our departure. Each city had that ominous "clouds with rain" icon along with the dreaded "40% chance of showers" description.
For our first game in Baltimore, not only did the forecast call for thunderstorms, but there was an 80% chance of them! Sure enough, they started around 3am and finished… 2 minutes after we parked our car in
Our seats were pretty good - one section off the field and, critically, UNDER COVER! The game proceeded as normal and around the 6th inning Todd and I started to debate moving down to get better seats. Now, my philosophy on this is pretty conservative. I don’t feel it right to take better seats until at least the 8th inning, regardless of whether or not they’ve been empty all game. It just doesn’t feel right to me. Well, as soon as we started seriously considering it, the sky opened up and everyone was either leaving or running for cover. What did we do? We put on our ponchos and scored 5th row seats! The rain delay lasted about 30 minutes and when the game resumed, we had amazing seats right over the Yankees dugout. Unfortunately it started raining about 30 minutes after the game resumed and since it was already the top of the 9th inning and Yanks had blown the game open, we decided to leave.
As we exited parking lot N, I somehow managed to circumvent ALL the exiting game traffic and made it out of
