Day 40: Los Angeles (AL)

Today we were back in Los Angeles as the Angels of Anaheim hosted the Tampa Bay Devil Rays at Angels Stadium. The Angels took advantage of the last place D-Rays, and went onto a 9-2 blowout with the help of a grand slam by Vladimir Guerrero. It was our 1st grand slam of the trip, so that was pretty exciting. It was my turn to pick, so I had the Angels and they now give me a 14-13 lead in picking games against Ben on the trip.

We were again joined by my cousin, Maryel, for the game in LA. There was 1 very nervous point prior to the game today when we pulled into the parking lot. A large sign said, "Event sold out today." We did not buy our tickets early to the game, since they were playing the lowly Devil Rays, but thankfully there were tickets still available at the ticket window. So, we are not sure why that sign would have been out before the game.



After getting into Maryel's at about 2:30 the night before, we went to a local restaurant for breakfast, and then got a tour of the Vandenberg AFB from Maryel. It was pretty neat to see the different facilities that are on base, which included a rocket launching pad that was unfortunately hidden by the fog.



After some Subway for lunch we headed down to the game. Our tickets were pretty close to behind home plate, in the third tier of seats. Angels stadium was really nice, with a fountain and rocks in center field that was cool.

Here are the statistical updates:
1-end of day odometer: 32,739
2-miles traveled today: 153
3-miles traveled total: 15,974
4-states traveled in today: California
bonus stat: this one come courtesy of the atlas in Maryel's car: the distance from Albuquerque to San Francisco and from Amarillo to San Diego is exactly the same at 1,111 miles