It's a wrap!
On Sunday, April 14, 2019 Dan and I visited our 30th and final Major League Baseball Park. When we hit the road in August 2007, one of our goals was to get to a baseball game at every team’s home park, with 29 located across the country, and one in Toronto, Canada. It took us 11 ½ years to get to them all, but we did it!!! On this day the Miami Marlins were playing the Philadelphia Phillies, and little did we know this would turn into a 14-inning game-and-a-half marathon. By the 6th inning, the score was tied 1-1. No runs were scored in innings 7-13, and we wondered if either team was going score again. Finally, the Phillies got 2 runs at the top of the 14th inning, and the Marlins couldn’t match them, so the 4 hour 38 minute game finally wrapped up.
On Sunday, April 14, 2019 Dan and I visited our 30th and final Major League Baseball Park. When we hit the road in August 2007, one of our goals was to get to a baseball game at every team’s home park, with 29 located across the country, and one in Toronto, Canada. It took us 11 ½ years to get to them all, but we did it!!! On this day the Miami Marlins were playing the Philadelphia Phillies, and little did we know this would turn into a 14-inning game-and-a-half marathon. By the 6th inning, the score was tied 1-1. No runs were scored in innings 7-13, and we wondered if either team was going score again. Finally, the Phillies got 2 runs at the top of the 14th inning, and the Marlins couldn’t match them, so the 4 hour 38 minute game finally wrapped up.
Here are
some fun facts about the park:
- Marlins Park is located in the Little
Havana neighborhood of downtown Miami.
- The park spans 17 acres of the former site
of the Miami Orange Bowl.
- The stadium is the sixth MLB stadium to
have a retractable roof (and it was closed the day we were there, not for rain,
but for the heat!).
- Seating capacity is 37,442, and is the
third-smallest stadium in official capacity (attendance the day we were
there was 15,238).
- Dual bulletproof aquariums serve as a
home-plate backstop.
- The distance from home plate is specified
on the outfield walls in meters in addition to feet, making Marlins
Park the only such major league ballpark to do so outside of Canada.
Everyone
is asking us, now that we’ve been to every MLB Park, do we plan to attend any
future baseball games? Of course!
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