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Showing posts with label miller park. Show all posts
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Stretch Time! - Miller Park
With the Brewers down 3-2, it was time for the seventh inning stretch. The organist played "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," and the whole crowd sang along. Then the organist transitioned smoothly into another song. Because of our seats on the lower deck at the first base line, I could not see the jumbotron with the lyrics for this new tune. Instead I just listened at those around us sang "Roll Out the Barrel," a Brewers tradition since the 1970s. Composed in 1927 by Czech musician JaromÃr Vejvoda, this song became popular worldwide during World War II, where it was translated into many languages and enjoyed by soldiers on both sides of the war. An alternative title for this fun ditty is "Beer Barrel Polka." If you haven't heard this tune, you should definitely look it up! After singing, the crowd then settled back in to watch the Brewers win in dramatic fashion.
Pittsburgh Pirates @ Milwaukee Brewers
The second game on our trip was between National League Central Division rivals, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the first place Milwaukee Brewers. For someone like me, it was also extremely important to note that this was our second game in a row that the stadium was selling hot-dogs for $1. In the past 48 hours I have consumed 10 hotdogs, and only spent $10!!
Milwaukee is a cool stadium because they have a retractable roof, so since it was about 35 degrees and rainy, they were able to cover the whole place, and make the game much more enjoyable. It was definitely like "Kids day" at the park, because it seems like there were hundreds of little kids there, and because of the kids, the ballpark had plenty of games and attractions to keep them all entertained. Of course, Milwaukee also had the sausage races in the middle of the 6th, and today's winner was the Chorizo!
As a whole, the fans in Milwaukee were a pretty interesting bunch, I am choosing to do one of my research projects on the fans at each ballpark, so this was something that interested me the most. In Milwaukee, they were out of control. They were yelling the whole time, but instead of being positive and cheering for their teams, they instead focused on yelling at the pirates and their fans. At one point, they got so out of control that one of them even spilled his drink onto Mikey!
Of course, at Miller Park there was also baseball being played that day. The starters were Wandy Rodriguez and Yovani Gallardo. Neither pitcher had a spectacular outing, but it seemed like for almost the whole game, the Pirates had control! That all changed in the bottom of the ninth, when Khris Davis had a walk-off single after missing terribly on his previous two swings! Brewers win, with the final score being 4-3! I have been to plenty of baseball games in my life, but this was the first walk-off I have witnessed in person! I know as we head west this is just the beginning of the excitement!!
Until the Next Adventure,
Ryan Rey
Milwaukee is a cool stadium because they have a retractable roof, so since it was about 35 degrees and rainy, they were able to cover the whole place, and make the game much more enjoyable. It was definitely like "Kids day" at the park, because it seems like there were hundreds of little kids there, and because of the kids, the ballpark had plenty of games and attractions to keep them all entertained. Of course, Milwaukee also had the sausage races in the middle of the 6th, and today's winner was the Chorizo!
As a whole, the fans in Milwaukee were a pretty interesting bunch, I am choosing to do one of my research projects on the fans at each ballpark, so this was something that interested me the most. In Milwaukee, they were out of control. They were yelling the whole time, but instead of being positive and cheering for their teams, they instead focused on yelling at the pirates and their fans. At one point, they got so out of control that one of them even spilled his drink onto Mikey!
Of course, at Miller Park there was also baseball being played that day. The starters were Wandy Rodriguez and Yovani Gallardo. Neither pitcher had a spectacular outing, but it seemed like for almost the whole game, the Pirates had control! That all changed in the bottom of the ninth, when Khris Davis had a walk-off single after missing terribly on his previous two swings! Brewers win, with the final score being 4-3! I have been to plenty of baseball games in my life, but this was the first walk-off I have witnessed in person! I know as we head west this is just the beginning of the excitement!!
Until the Next Adventure,
Ryan Rey
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