Beltway Series

Every year, interleague weekend falls on my birthday weekend, so we always plan to go to one of the games in the Beltway Series.  This year, the Nats were playing the O's in Baltimore, so I was looking forward to heading out to Camden Yards.  As much as I love the new Nationals Park, Camden Yards will always hold a special place in my heart.  It is such a great ballpark!  We arrived there about an hour early to walk around and check things out.  Unfortunately, it was pouring rain, so we knew there was definitely going to be a rain delay.

We waited for an hour during the rain delay, eating, drinking and watching the Brewers/Red Sox game.  Since it looked like the rain was not going to let up any time soon, we decided to head home.  I was so bummed because we had great seats and I knew that the Nats would pull out a win this game after losing the last two.

Of course traffic was miserable for the ride from Baltimore to Reston, but by the time we were close to home, the second hour of rain delay was over, and we were able to listen to most of the game on the radio.  John Lannan pitched an incredible game!  He pitched into the seventh inning and only gave up one run on four hits.  Christian Guzman and Ryan Zimmerman helped him out too.  Guzman hit a nice home run in the third inning and Zim drove Lopez in with a RBI double in the eighth inning.  So, the Nats did end up winning 2 - 1.  We are going to one of the games when the Orioles come to town at the end of June, so I will just hope to see another winning game then!