Friday, April 26, 2024

New Siebert Field

All photos of Siebert Field available on Flickr.

My April NCAA ballpark tour continued this week at Siebert Field in Minneapolis, home of the Minnesota Golden Gophers of the Big 10 Conference.  The ballpark takes its name from Dick Siebert, a former head coach who led the team to three national titles in the early 1960s during the program's heyday.  This is actually the 2nd iteration of Siebert Field that has existed at the same exact site, replacing the old facility in 2013.  Despite Erik moving to Minneapolis in the summer of 2004 and living there for the better part of a decade (while obtaining multiple degrees from the UofM nonetheless), I've somehow never made it to either of the Sieberts, but it certainly wasn't for lack of trying.  Towards the end of the O.G. Siebert's existence, it was becoming so dilapidated that the Gophers started playing almost exclusively at the old Metrodome.  I actually recall Erik going to many of those games when he was a Twins usher there.  And there was at least one time we tried going to the new park and the game was cancelled due to too much snow on the field.  We did make it out to see Goldy at their early season home of U.S. Bank Stadium in 2017, but I finally got to one of my white whales this past Tuesday.

I made the 15 minute drive from my office in St. Paul, and found some free street parking a couple blocks away from the park within what appeared to be a large off-campus housing area.  The ballpark is situated on the north end of campus, amongst the glut of their other athletic facilities.  It is oriented southeast and wedged between an active rail line to the north, the track & field stadium to the east, the softball stadium to the south, and Athletes Village to the west, which is another BWBR-designed project.  It seems like every single men's and women's sport has their own dedicated playing and practice facility in its own separate part of campus, and being my first time to this part of campus, it felt odd to me.  When I was at the University of Cincinnati, there was something special about the ceremony of at arriving to the football stadium in the center of campus and how buildings were arranged around that, instead of just stumbling upon this back baseball field next to a set of train tracks as in the case of Siebert Field.  Once I got inside it even felt cramped on the site.  I'm not complaining about the perils of an urban campus - density is a good thing - but the entire area could have just been organized and connected better with some sort of cohesive athletics master plan.  I did like how other buildings and infrastructure consciously make up some of the boundaries of the field.  The types of parks that do this are always the most intimate, unique, and memorable - Hadlock Field in Portland and Jackson Field in Lansing spring to mind as recent examples for me.  Aside from its position and location on campus, the rest of the ballpark was pretty status quo.  It has about 5 sections of fixed seats that are 15 rows deep, some bleacher sections above the dugouts, and then two small berms further down the lines adjacent to the bullpens.  It has an open concourse at the top row of seats with a concessions building behind home plate with press box above, a small outbuilding with bathrooms and I assume lockers down the 3rd base line, and an indoor batting cage and training building down the 1st base line.  I've implied that this field is shoehorned into its site, and that means the concourses basically stop at the foul poles and there is no access beyond the outfield fence.  It certainly wasn't horrible, but I was expecting a little bit more out of a Big 10 facility, particularly when compared to the beautiful D3 St. John's ballpark I was at a couple weeks ago.

I was definitely spoiled by the mild weather I experienced in Omaha and Collegeville earlier this month, because this game was a harsh reminder as if to say "hey, it's still April."  It had just stopped raining when I got to the park which pushed back first pitch about 20 minutes, and after that rain ceased it cooled considerably, dropping down into the low 40s by the time I left.  Minnesota would go on to defeat intercity rival St. Thomas by a 7-6 score in 11 innings.  My joints were literally freezing stiff by the end of the 7th, and I also had an 80-mile drive ahead of me back home, so I did not get to see the thrilling conclusion, but there was plenty of action in the 7 innings I saw.  The Tommies jumped out to a 6-1 lead in the 4th, and the Gophers scratched and clawed back the rest of the way, ultimately winning on a walk-off single by 2B Brady Counsell in the 11th, who you can probably guess is the son of former Brewers manager and noted traitor Craig Counsell.  The other exciting name in the game was Jack Spanier, mainly because he is from Cold Spring and was ROCORI's starting quarterback a couple years ago (no, I am not into local small town high school football now...yet).  He went 2-5 with 2 RBI starting at SS in the 9-hole.  Both starting pitchers were pretty awful.  Walker Retz for St. Thomas walked 5 over 4 innings with only 1 strikeout, and Nick Argento for Minnesota gave up 4 runs in just 2.1 with a walk and 3 hit batsmen.  He was also just as wild off the mound, as 2 of his runs were unearned due to an errant throw from him to first base.  As an aside, I've always felt that if a pitcher commits an error that leads to a run scoring, that the run should be earned and charged to him - he's the one that made his own mistake!

With the college baseball regular season wrapping up in the next couple of weeks, I am eagerly awaiting the start of the town ball and Northwoods League calendar!

park rankings and statistics:
aesthetics - 4
views from park - 6
view to field - 8
surrounding area - 5 (student housing and other athletic facilities)
food variety - 5
nachos - 5 (cheese was ok, good ratio, points deducted for bag of chips)
beer - n/a
vendor price - 8 ($2 Tuesday)
ticket price - 9 ($10 behind home plate)
atmosphere - 4
walk to park - 6
parking price/proximity - 7 (free street parking 2 blocks away)
concourses - 4
team shop - 4 (good amount of stuff but it was a stand not a shop)
kids area - n/a

best food - nachos
most unique stadium feature - site/campus location
best jumbotron feature - Categories game
best between-inning feature - Guess the Stretch

field dimensions - 330/390/330

starters - Walker Retz (STT) v. Nick Argento (UMN)
opponent - St. Thomas Tommies

time of game - 3:59
attendance - 501
score - 7-6 W (11)
Brewers score that day - 2-1 L

STANDINGS AND UPCOMING SERIES AS OF 4/26/24:
Brewers 16-8, +0.5; 3 v. Yankees, 3 v. Rays
Twins 11-13, -6.5; 3 @ Angels, 3 @ White Sox
Orioles 16-8, --; 3 v. Athletics, 4 v. Yankees

2024 GAMES ATTENDED:
Erik - 1
Peter - 4

Friday, April 19, 2024

Becker Park

All photos of Becker Park available on Flickr.

An unseasonably mild April afternoon afforded me the opportunity to cross a local collegiate field off my list this past Saturday.  I've been excited to go to Becker Park since I moved out here, not only because it's the only major collegiate ballpark in the area I haven't been to yet (St. Cloud State shares a ballpark with the Rox Northwoods team), but because I've heard how stunningly beautiful Saint John's campus is from numerous people.  St. John's is a private liberal arts college that was founded by Benedictine monks in 1857, making it the oldest college in the state of Minnesota.  It is closely affiliated with the nearby women's College of St. Benedict, and both still offer theological and divinity study programs.  When you combine these facts with its location nestled amongst 3 lakes in a heavily wooded and secluded area, one can imagine how idyllic the setting and architecture are on campus.  There's really only one way into campus, which gives anyone driving there a very tranquil arrival experience that only further emphasizes how remote it is.  The athletic facilities are mostly globbed together on the north side of campus, and all are relatively new when juxtaposed with all the century-plus old academic buildings.  The baseball field is sandwiched between a brand new tennis facility and the inflatable Skalicky football dome, and I got to walk past an ongoing tennis match on my way from the parking lot to the ballgame.

Haugen Field at Becker Park opened for business in 2013.  It's fairly common nowadays for a team to name the playing field and the ballpark separately as St. John's has, but normally I don't care to acknowledge the field naming aspect as usually it's nothing more than a money grab.  But in this case, it's definitely worth mentioning the namesake for Haugen Field.  Jerry Haugen is the current manager for the St. John's Johnnies, as he has been for each of the past 47 seasons.  With 935 victories as of the start of 2024, that places him in the top 15 for winningest active D3 baseball coaches, to go along with 3 conference championships during his tenure.  Perhaps more astonishing than his 935 wins is the fact that there are 14 active managers ahead of him somehow.  A man for all seasons, he's also coached basketball, hockey, and football for St. John's as well, and the 100% synthetic field was dedicated to him in 2017.  It's common for managers to also double as the 3rd base coach at this level as well, and his 3rd base coaching box even has his number in it.  Aside from no longer being too swift on his feet at his age, he seemed as energetic and passionate as ever, yelling words of encouragement and direction to his players in the 3rd base dugout throughout the game.  

That 3rd base dugout is situated below and within one of the other reasons I went to see this ballpark - the brand new clubhouse designed by the firm I work for, BWBR.  It formally opened this season and houses some much needed locker rooms, indoor training facilities, and a rooftop deck that is occupiable for viewing the game.  Prior to this addition, players had to dress and shower at the football field up the hill and walk down to the ballpark, so it was long overdue.  Of course I am biased, but I think it is a very aesthetically pleasing building that blends in with the stadium architecture very well, and the rooftop deck space was a great space to watch a ballgame, unencumbered by nets and within spitting distance of the players below.  Overall I was very surprised with how nice the ballpark was for a D3 level facility at a small private college.  The entry portal into the inner courtyard of the ballpark, while not glamorous, was very functional and provided a welcoming entry sequence.  This "portal" also housed some storage, restrooms, and the main concession stand, which was another welcome surprise. The grandstand was very well thought out with a nice press box and a large shade canopy, and I loved the extra wide aisles down the lines where the bleacher seating was.  The bleachers had a nice detail where the bench was installed level with the walking aisle of the row behind, which gave these sections a very open feel.  On top of all that, I was shocked to see the park had a jumbotron as well.  It was a very comfortable, scenic, intimate, and well-intentioned place to watch a game, and that's all you can really ask for at a D3 ball field.  And certainly crushing a $1 dog on an 80° April day didn't hurt either.

The Johnnies won 13-8 as a part of an offensive barrage on the day.  I only stayed for the first game of a doubleheader against Carleton College, but the Johnnies also won game 2 by a score of 20-9.  And mind you, these were only 7 inning games.  After a quiet 1st inning, the floodgates opened, and there was at least one run scored in every subsequent inning.  The Knights jumped out to a 5-1 lead in the 3rd thanks to a couple of 2-run singles, but the Johnnies would score 12 unanswered over the next 4 frames for the victory.  There were 4 total homeruns in the game, 3 of which were by the home team, and one of those by 3B Joe Becker, who I can only assume is part of the Becker family for whom the stadium is named.  Owen Dauk was the offensive star of the day for St. John's, and Ryan Chang for the Knights.  Each of them had a homer and 5 RBI apiece in the game.  Despite the high score, Connor Hartley managed to toss a complete game win for the Johnnies.  His final line was 8 runs on 11 hits with 6 Ks, but it looks worse than he really pitched as there were 3 garbage runs scored by Carleton in the 7th with Haugen trying to preserve the bullpen for Game 2.  I certainly was not expecting to see a D3 game with 25 total hits and 4 long balls, but you never know what you're going to see on any given day at the ballpark.

Most of the time when I'm going to these smaller Midwestern collegiate fields in March and April, honestly I'm just going to add a ballpark to my tally, and/or as an excuse to enjoy a nice spring day, but Becker Park is definitely a field I will be returning to in the future.

park rankings and statistics:
aesthetics - 8
views from park - 8
view to field - 9
surrounding area - 5 (beautiful campus!)
food variety - 2
nachos - n/a
beer - n/a
vendor price - 10 (most things were a dollar)
ticket price - 10 (free)
atmosphere - 7 (much better than I was expecting)
walk to park - 6 (past tennis courts)
parking price/proximity - 9 (adjacent lot for free)
concourses - 2 (there isn't really a concourse)
team shop - n/a
kids area - n/a

best food - dollar dog (note: seeds and peanuts not allowed!)
most unique stadium feature - new clubhouse designed by my firm, honorable mention to the eagles nest platform on one of the light standards
best jumbotron feature - player graphics
best between-inning feature - employee appreciation day raffle

field dimensions - 330/395/330

starters - Ananth Iyer (CAR) v. Connor Hartley (SJU)
opponent - Carleton College Knights

time of game - 2:01 (game 1 of doubleheader)
attendance - 456 (not sure how they came up with an attendance with no gate but this felt accurate)
score - 13-8 W
Brewers score that day - 11-5 W

STANDINGS AND UPCOMING SERIES AS OF 4/19/24:
Brewers 11-6, +0.5; 3 @ Cardinals, 4 @ Pirates
Twins 6-11, -6.0; 3 v. Tigers, 4 v. White Sox
Orioles 12-6, -0.5; 3 @ Royals, 3 @ Angels

2024 GAMES ATTENDED:
Erik - 1
Peter - 3

Friday, April 12, 2024

Tal Anderson Field

All photos of Tal Anderson Field available on Flickr.

Anybody who's followed this blog for awhile might remember all the work trips I had to make to Omaha at my previous job.  I probably went there close to 20 times in a span from 2016-2019.  So I could not help but laugh when I started with a new firm a few years ago that happens to have an Omaha office.  I immediately knew that at some point, I was going to be on a project with that office in some capacity, and my lifetime of visiting The Big O would never end.  Sure enough, a couple years ago I started working on a large college STEM building in nearby Lincoln, and I've been back to Nebraska several more times since.  To this point, due to stupid meetings and general bad timing, it's never worked out where I could see a game while I've been back, but I was finally able to sneak in a University of Nebraska-Omaha game this week while in town for a construction site visit, and in doing so tallied my first new ballpark of 2024.  The UNO campus is in the Aksarben Village neighborhood which is kind of smack-dab in the middle of the enormous swath of land that is Omaha, and I attended a Tuesday evening game at their brand new baseball facility, Tal Anderson Field.

The University of Nebraska-Omaha is a fairly large public university that plays in Division I, but their athletics program has really only exploded in the last decade or so as their campus has grown.  Their major D1 sport for the longest time was hockey and were the first program to build a new facility on campus in 2015 (also built with major financial contribution from alumnus and local business owner Tal Anderson), and their baseball and softball programs followed with their own dedicated fields in 2021.  Before Tal Anderson Field opened, the baseball program was Division II and essentially nomadic, playing at a combination of various high school and city fields around town.  There are certainly a lot of instances where college programs say they "need" a new facility for recruiting or to attract donors or for a litany of financial reasons, but UNO literally just needed a home, and it is a very nice home.  The field is just west of the aforementioned hockey arena, and it actually shares a concourse with Connie Claussen Field, a softball field that was built as part of the project.  This provides a very unique setup where restrooms, concessions, entry point, and even some of the viewing and staff areas on the 2nd level are shared between fields.  I thought this was an ingenious use of land and space and frankly I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.  It still gives each team and field its own distinctive and separate seating bowl and allows for games to be played at the same time, so nothing is compromised in that regard.  You enter both parks from the east and Tal Anderson Field is situated to face northeast, and the softball diamond to face southeast, with the west-east corridor shared cutting across the two.  If you were to take this shared facility concept away, nothing else would really stand out for the stadium, but again I'm sure Omaha is more than happy to just have a nice permanent home.  There are fixed seats from dugout to dugout, with lawn areas down the lines, a perfectly symmetrical outfield wall, and a videoboard in right-center.  As has been the trend just about everywhere at fields of this size, the playing surface is 100% artificial turf including the "dirt" and the mound.  The ballpark holds about 1500 people, and I was pleasantly surprised to be a part of a near-capacity crowd for a weeknight game against intercity rival Creighton University.

Two things I certainly was not prepared for when I walked into the ballpark that night: 1) more than 100 people there on a Tuesday, and 2) to witness one of the longest 9-inning games of my life.  I still distinctly remember a 9-inning Red Sox-Angels affair in Anaheim on the Tour that was in excess of 4 hours, but aside from that, this had to be up near the top for me, clocking in at 3 hours and 47 minutes.  Concession lines were long for most of the game on a $2 Tuesday (which certainly padded that attendance figure) and I would not be shocked if the ballpark ran out of Busch Light at this long of a game.  I had a seat 8 rows directly behind home plate for $12, within the demilitarized zone between Creighton fans to my left and Omaha fans to my right.  The Blue Jays pulled all the way out to a 7-1 lead by the 8th inning and this was when most people left, but the Mavericks made a game of it, tallying 3 in their half of the 8th and 2 in the 9th to nearly complete the comeback, but ultimately falling 7-6.  It was a very sloppily pitched game with a lot of deep counts, mound visits, umpire reviews, and pitching changes, all of which contributed heavily to the long game time.  In total, there were 420 pitches, 16 walks, and 7 hit batsmen, thrown by 14 total pitchers.  Blue Jay leadoff hitter Nolan Sailors was actually plunked 3 times and somehow refrained from charging the mound.  The most impressive hitter of the night for me was Henry Zipay (pronounced ZOO-pay) of the Omaha Mavericks.  He was a shortstop hitting out of the 9-hole so more than likely I just saw a good game from him and not an accurate representation of his talent, but he smoked the ball 3 times, including a hard-hit single through the right side to bring the Mavs within 1 in the 9th.  First baseman Will MacLean of Creighton and LF Drew Lechnir of Omaha each contributed 2 doubles respectively into the spacious power alleys of this ballpark.  The only decent pitcher of the night was a diminutive sidewinder for the Blue Jays named Tommy Lamb.  He struck out all 7 batters he faced in middle relief.

Excluding cities of residence, Omaha is probably in the top 3 of places I've visited most, and it's a city I've grown quite fond of and familiar with.  There are certainly worse places to have work travel, and especially given the fact that I live in the middle of nowhere now, I relish any opportunity to be in any urban area for a couple of days.  I'm hoping I can make it back out for another game in Lincoln or Omaha in the late summer for my project's punchlist.

park rankings and statistics:
aesthetics - 6
views from park - 4
view to field - 9
surrounding area - 3 (UNO athletic facilities)
food variety - 2
nachos - 2 (bag o' chips 'n' cheese)
beer - 8 ($2 but points deducted for Busch)
vendor price - 9
ticket price - 8
atmosphere - 7 (much better than I was expecting)
walk to park - 4
parking price/proximity - 10 (adjacent lot for free)
concourses - 6 (the one shared side was cool)
team shop - n/a
kids area - n/a

best food - hot dog
most unique stadium feature - shared concourse with neighboring softball field
best jumbotron feature - sponsor of the game
best between-inning feature - Quality Brands Maverick Stampede

field dimensions - 330/410/330

starters - Shea Wendt (CRE) v. Carter Navin (UNO)
opponent - Creighton Blue Jays

time of game - 3:47
attendance - 1278
score - 7-6 L
Brewers score that day - 9-5 W

STANDINGS AND UPCOMING SERIES AS OF 4/12/24:
Brewers 8-3, --; 3 @ Orioles, 3 v. Padres
Twins 4-6, -4.0; 4 @ Tigers, 3 @ Orioles
Orioles 8-4, -1.5; 3 v. Brewers, 3 v. Twins

2024 GAMES ATTENDED:
Erik - 0
Peter - 2

Thursday, April 4, 2024

First Brewers Opener as Minnesota Residents

All photos of 2024 Brewers Home Opener available on Flickr.

As the title of this post suggests, a little thing like moving 400+ miles away wasn't going to stop us from attending another Brewers home opener this week.  The timing and circumstances of the opening game this year just were too good to pass up - it happened to fall during Spring Break a couple days after Easter, and the Crew was playing our new hometown Twins!  It stands to reason that it will never align that perfectly again, so we took advantage of attending another Brewers home opener while we could.  We got into Milwaukee on Friday afternoon and stayed with my parents in Oak Creek and the game itself was on Tuesday afternoon.  Sleeping in my parents house for that length of time again is very surreal, but I'm grateful for these opportunities to visit my family and the city I still and will always love.  And going to AmFam Field in addition to that just put a nice cherry on top of our stay.

The weather was very ominous on Tuesday and it was one of the worst weather forecasts I can recall for an Opening Day - upper 30s temps, a heavy rain that changed to snow during the game, and 30+ mph winds.  These conditions should have made tailgating damn near impossible, but Megan, my brother Nick, and I, along with tens of thousands of other brave fans, sat in our cars with the heat on, pounding Lites and whatever food we could muster sans grill while waiting for the gates to open at 1:10.  The poor weather overshadowed what was probably the biggest change at the ballpark for the offseason - the new parking system.  The Brewers are the first baseball team in the country to implement a new system that does not involve scanning parking passes, but rather works sort of like paying for meter parking.  You are supposed to either activate a pre-paid parking pass on your phone via the MLB Ballpark app and enter your license plate number, or you can also do the same thing by scanning a QR code posted on signs strewn throughout the parking lot.  There are also some kiosk options for those who haven't yet paid on their phones, again sort of like paying at a parking meter station.  As I watched dozens of people grumpily shaking their fists at the QR signs in the cold rain, I knew this change was not going over well and would likely experience some hiccups and pushback.  And in fact, the team did announce during the game that the QR codes experienced "connection issues" and no citations would be issued that day for unpaid parking.  Apparently the Brewers did not realize that 20,000 people all trying to access one website at the same time would be a problem, but I do believe that once that gets rectified, people will find this system incredibly easy, and more importantly it gets you into the parking lot nearly instantly with no stopping or long lines.  I'll say again, for anybody who has used a parking meter in the last decade, this system will come very natural.  Although I like it, I will say that I don't understand what the Brewers motivation is to implement this.  The people that formerly scanned your tickets are now just called "parking ambassadors" and point you where to go so it's not like they're saving money hiring less people, and the only days of the year where there is a logjam getting into the lot is Opening Day and the playoffs.

You know you're getting old when you talk about weather and parking in great detail for an entire paragraph, so I'll move on.  Inside the stadium, there were two major changes for the season.  The first is the enormous new jumbotron.  The new model is over 12,000 SF, which more than doubles the old screen and is the 2nd largest in MLB.  For anybody who's visited AmFam Field, you'll remember that the old scoreboard was flanked with static advertising on 3 sides.  That advertising is now shown on the actual screen most of the time, so even though the screen is huge, the actual footprint is not noticeably larger.  The times you really notice are when full-screen replays or videos are shown.  There is also a second smaller digital scoreboard that was added above the Johnsonville Party Deck in right field that is used primarily to show stats.  It's pretty common for teams to show things like the pitch sequence per at bat or "inside baseball" types of nerdy SABR stats, so this was a welcome addition for an avid fan like myself.  The second major change in the ballpark was the addition of the 3rd Street Market Hall on the loge level in the right field corner.  This area takes its name from the same food hall that exists in the old Grand Avenue Mall downtown and features several grab-and-go style food options provided by popular Milwaukee restaurants - Kompali Taqueria, Anytime Arepas, and Kawa Sushi to name a few.  I was skeptical of how this area would function in a sold-out crowd because it is in a very cramped area where they've already jammed a very popular craft beer bar and craft cocktail bar the last few years.  But given the type of "quick" food and how they've laid it out, it worked surprisingly well.  There are several enclaves of tables in previously dead space, and the food stands face all sorts of directions in an organic fashion to allow for easy queueing.  We shared a sushi roll and an order of crab rangoons from Kawa and both were exceptional restaurant quality.  Kompali and Anytime are two of my favorite eateries in the city as well, so I'll for sure be stopping back to the Market Hall on any future visit.

Our seats were on the club level for the game, which is par for the course with the Nagel family.  We paid our customary respects to the club level bartenders and settled in to our 4th row seats behind home plate to take in an amazing win that brought the Crew up to an undefeated 4-0 at the time (they have since dropped their first game of the season).  Former Giant and 29th round Royals draft pick Jakob Junis got the ball for Milwaukee and tossed an effective 4 innings with 4 Ks.  Elvis Peguero was the bridge man who got the next 2 innings and was dominant, giving up only 1 unearned run en route to earning the win.  Abner Uribe picked up his 3rd save of the season in an uneventful 9th that I mostly remember.  On the offensive side, Brice Turang continued his torrid start to the season with 2 more hits, an RBI, and 2 more steals to add to his league-leading total of 6.  Christian Yelich added his 2nd homer of the season in the 3rd inning as well.  The hallmarks of this young team from last season - speed and defense - look to not only have continued under new manager Pat Murphy, but are even exceeding last year to this point.  The Brewers ran wild on the Mets this past weekend, and it seems like we have half a dozen guys who could be Gold Glove finalists on this team.  This team has a lot of energy and chemistry and it will be exciting to see how the season plays out, particularly the newcomer of 20-year old and #2 overall prospect Jackson Chourio, who became the youngest Brewer to make an Opening Day roster since the venerable Robin Yount.  The question mark of this team will be the starting rotation.  We lost over 500 innings out of the rotation this past season due to trades and injuries and replaced those innings largely with journeymen, and not that much waiting in the wings in AAA.  The first turn through the rotation was solid, but let's see how this holds up over 162 games.

I'm hoping to make it to another Crew game when we come back to Milwaukee in late spring, but otherwise it will be an exciting season of Minnesota baseball and following the Crew on MLB.tv.

STANDINGS AND UPCOMING SERIES AS OF 4/4/24:
(note: I am also tracking the Orioles this year because I have a substantial bet on the over...)
Brewers 4-1, +0.5; 3 v. Mariners, 4 @ Reds
Twins 3-2, -1.5; 3 v. Rays, 3 v. Guardians, 3 v. Dodgers
Orioles 4-2, -1.5; 3 @ Pirates, 3 @ Red Sox

2024 GAMES ATTENDED:
Erik - 0
Peter - 1