A great day for baseball today - the temperature hit 84, it was sunny with no wind. The Phillies played the Red Sox and both teams had their best pitchers pitching - Cliff Lee for the Phillies and John Lester for the Red Sox. As expected, it was a pitchers duel for the first 5 innings then the Red Sox scored 2 runs. The Phillies tied the game in the 8th inning, but that was all the scoring for the day and the game ended in a tie, 2-2 after 10 innings. At least they didn't lose - progress, I guess.
A highlight of the day was a pre-game appearance of the Budweiser Clydesdales from Busch Gardens in Tampa. And as usual the Phillie Phanatic continued to entertain the crowd as only it can do. There was also a record crowd at the park today - 11,200 fans, the largest since the park opened 11 years ago. There are only 8,500 seats in the stadium but plenty of room for berm seating and standing room.
Dinner was take-out pizza tonight. It was very good NY style pizza from another Italian restaurant in town. No baseball tomorrow so we are going to try and squeeze in another beach day. We only have two more no-baseball days before we leave next Thursday (tomorrow and Monday) and the weather looks better for tomorrow. Laundry is also on the agenda so it should be a busy vacation day.
Day 25 Pictures
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