April 25, 2014, Camden Yards (Baltimore). On-Field Experience and Fireworks.

I went to the Orioles vs. Royals game at Camden Yards on April 25, 2014.  I received tickets from the game through the Orioles social media campaign program called the Birds Nest (http://osbirdsnest.com).  Basically, you earn points for visiting their Facebook page, re-tweating Orioles posts...etc.  Then you get to use the points/tokens to either buy items or enter contests.  I ended up using my tokens for the On-Field Experience for April 25, 2014.

The On-Field Experience included two tickets to the Lower Left Field Box, and a chance to watch the Firework show on the field after the game (the Orioles have several firework promotion nights, normally on Friday nights).  My tickets ended up being in Section 84, row 12 (in Left/Center Field) where the list price for tickets is $29 a piece.

View from Section 84, row 12

The game wasn't much to talk about.  It was rainy that day and the game was delayed for 55 minutes due to the weather.  It rained off and on during the night.  It was also the one day I got awesome tickets that aren't under cover (just my luck). Thankfully, I pack my backpack with a rain coat to almost every game just in case of the unexpected (Yes, major league baseball does allow people to bring in backpacks under a certain size unlike NFL. What your allowed to bring into the Stadium varies from Stadium to Stadium.  Camden Yards however is one of the most fan friendly stadiums as it allows more items then most ball parks...I may go into depth on this in another post).

Unfortunately, the Orioles got shut out against Yordano Ventura (who was a beast that night...pitching 8 innings and throwing some incredible fast balls around 98 mph).

After the game I met the Orioles representative to take those who got the On-Field Experience on to the field.  It was very interesting going into the basement of the stadium.  So much action was going on after the game.  Media crews and reporters were running around the tunnels into the interview room. Roch Kubatko (Official Orioles MASN Blogger), and Brittany Ghiroli (MLB.com Orioles Writer) whizzed by us on the way to the field.

Ground crew at work after the game.

Then we got on the field and all of the grounds crew members were hard at work re-touching up the field.  We ended up sitting on chairs placed on the dirt track behind home plate to watch the Firework show. All in all an awesome experience to see the "life" of the stadium after the game and get to go on the field.  Maybe the game wasn't much to talk about but the On-Field Experience was defiantly something worth checking out.

Below are some photos I took of the fireworks from on the field.  These are a few of the photos that came out ok (it was very difficult to take them with no tripod and and a shutter opening from 1/3 to 3 seconds...tripods and monopods are not allowed in the Stadium).