My sister lived in the Atlanta area and flew me out for a visit right after I got back from my two-year church mission trip. We had plans to attend a particular game, but I looked up who the starting pitchers were and talked my sister into going to the next day's game because Curt Schilling was pitching for the Red Sox. Big mistake. The game we would have gone to was a great game and went into extra innings (with one run scored in both halves of the 10th and concluding with a walk-off homer in the 12th). Our game was fairly uneventful with Schilling shutting down the Braves for an easy 6-1 victory (although it was pretty cool to see Schilling dominate with a CG and 10 K's). But the worst part was that it was on July 3rd and we didn't realize that this was the firework show game in celebration of the Fourth. So the game was completely sold out and we had to bum some super expensive tickets off a guy on the street. Not only that, but the tickets were for some standing room only section. Yes, we had to stand the entire game. We were standing half way up down the first base side. The view was ok and standing wasn't the worst thing ever. It's just that we could have gone to a better game the day before, for less money, and sat throughout the duration (excluding the 7th inning stretch of course). Plus, fireworks are extremely overrated and my sister and I just walked out of the stadium at the end of the game and enjoyed a very traffic-free drive back to her house.
All in all, a baseball game is a baseball game and there is no finer place to be than at the ballpark.
So here is the box score for interested parties:
http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=240703115
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