Day 33: Oakland

And the comeback continues. After seeing our 24th game of the trip between the Oakland Athletics and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, we are tied 12-12 in picking games. The game started out with Jered Weaver of the Angels continuing the shutdown of the A's. Yesterday, the Angels pitcher gave up a leadoff double and then retired the next 27 batters. Today, Weaver pitched 7 innings of shutout ball and the Angels bats came alive for six runs to help the Angels beat the A's 6-4. Ben chose the Angels today because Weaver entered the day 5-0 with a 1.35 era.

The drive today was another beautiful trip through the west as we headed south on I-5 through the mountains. We made a stop in Weed, CA to get gas and had a great view of snow covered Mt. Shasta which stands at 14,162 ft. While in Weed, we paid a painful $3.299 per gallon.



As we were walking up to buy tickets for the game, we encountered two ladies looking to sell two tickets. They were in the lower tier on the third base side 19 rows up. We paid them $20 total for the tickets and got to sit with these nice ladies for the whole game. They were a pleasure to meet and we gave them the blog address so hopefully they are reading this post.

Also, during the game we witnessed our second fan ejection of the trip. A young man in Angels attire decided to consume a few too many beverages of the adult variety and began to antagonize the fans around him. Eventually, after an obsenity-laced tirad, he was escorted from the McAfee Coliseum just as a the group of men sitting near us during the Boston game.

We would like to extend a warm thank you to the lady working the desk at the Best Value Inn last night. She had a vacancy after we had stopped at 4 other hotels which were all full. They had wireless internet and a continental breakfast.

Here are the statistical updates:
1-end of day odometor: 31,281
2-miles traveled today: 899
3-miles traveled total: 14,638
4-states traveled in today: Oregon, California
bonus stat: teams are 0-3 when their cleanup hitter has 2 or more walks