Day 4: Minnesota

After another extra inning, walk-off home run affair, Ben has his 1st win of the trip as the Twins beat the Baltimore Orioles courtesy of Justin Morneau's 2-run bomb in the bottom of the 12th inning. The game was another classic, with the Twins tying it by scoring 2 runs in the 8th after trailing for most of the game. The Orioles threatened in the top of the 12th when Javy Lopez was thrown out at home by 3rd baseman Brandon Fahey, then Morneau put a swift end to things with 2 outs in the bottom of the 12th.

Special thanks go to Mike Harris of Faribault Mills for the front row tickets and joining us at the game for an awesome evening of baseball and conversation. Also, thanks go to Paul, the bat boy for the Minnesota Twins who gave us 2 game balls and 2 game bats at the end of his 16 hr. work day at the stadium.




The atmosphere in the Metrodome was great, especially with the players being so close which resulted in some good photographs of Javy Lopez that I'm sure Katey will enjoy. We got to the stadium about an hour before the game in order to watch batting practice down on the field.



We started the day out by watching the men's semifinals of the French Open, then spent the rest of the afternoon playing games with the Phippen family. This included Brennan losing to his Mom in ping-pong 22-20. Ben and I split our 2 meetings of table tennis today. For breakfast we had waffles and sausage links, and for dinner we had some delicious sloppy joe's before leaving for the ball park.

Here are the statistical updates:
1-end of day odometer: 18,157
2-miles traveled today: 57
3-miles traveled total: 1,514
4-states traveled in today: Minnesota
bonus stat: teams who score the 1st run of the game are 0-3 on our trip