Day 41: San Diego

Today we made our way farther South in California as we watched the San Diego Padres play the Atlanta Braves in Petco Park. Our tickets were directly behind home plate in the upper deck, the 2nd row from the top of the stadium. The Braves caught fire for a 6-run 4th inning, capped by a Chipper Jones home run and won 10-5. Ben chose the Padres over the Braves, so I take my 2nd win in as many days and move to 15-13 overall on the trip.

We were again joined by my cousin, Maryel, who provided housing again via her aunt in Los Angeles. We left at 9:00am, and were parked in San Diego shortly after 11:00. After lunch at Burger King, we walked down to the stadium.



During the game, we saw our 1st ejections of the trip. 2 Padres coaches were tossed for arguing balls and strikes after some very questionable calls by the umpire. This culminated with manager Bruce Boche throwing his hat on the ground and then having the ump step on it. Then, 2 innings later, Jeff Francoeur was ejected for arguing as well, and manager Bobby Cox came storming out of the dugout and was quickly tossed. It was about time we saw some coaches go toe-to-toe with the umps on our trip.

On the drive from San Diego to Phoenix, we stopped to play catch in the desert. We eased our way into the desert, making sure no scorpions or snakes were in the area, and threw until one of us made an uncatchable throw. This took about 20 minutes before I zinged one over Ben's head and off into the sand. Continuing on the drive, we skirted by a nasty storm, that had constant lightning, and what would have been very heavy rain if it had been in our path.



Here are the statistical updates:
1-end of day odometer: 33,273
2-miles traveled today: 534
3-miles traveled total: 16,508
4-states traveled in today: California, Arizona
bonus stat: teams are 7-0 if their 3rd baseman hits in the no. 3 spot and has at least 1 RBI and does not ground out to the shortstop

PS - we are sorry that it has been so long for pictures to be posted, they will be up as soon as possible