{"id":21822,"date":"2024-11-02T03:30:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T09:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21822"},"modified":"2024-09-03T14:17:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:17:22","slug":"ballpark-tour-orioles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/ballpark-tour-orioles-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballpark Tour: Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/orioles.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9438\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/orioles.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a>With the 2024 season officially wrapped up and the offseason now underway, we continue our tour of all of the different baseball stadiums I\u2019ve been to over the years. This week, we head east for a look at the Baltimore Orioles and their stadium that kicked off the retro craze.\u00a0 So, without further ado, let\u2019s take a deeper look at my one game history with Oriole Park at Camden Yards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/camdenyards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15240\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/camdenyards.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/camdenyards.jpg 750w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/camdenyards-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/camdenyards-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stadium Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Oriole Park at Camden Yards<\/p>\n<p><strong>Years in Service:<\/strong>\u00a01992 \u2013 Present<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visits:<\/strong>\u00a01<\/p>\n<p>After 38 seasons at Memorial Stadium following their move from St. Louis, the Orioles opened Oriole Park at Camden Yards in 1992.\u00a0 It was the first of a wave of \u201cretro\u201d parks that would sprout up over the following 2 decades, changing the architecture of baseball.\u00a0 The Orioles took the initial contest at the park, defeating the Indians 2-0 behind a Rick Sutcliffe shutout.<\/p>\n<p>The stadium hosted its first All-Star Game in 1993.\u00a0 On September 6, 1995, the park witnessed Cal Ripken surpass Lou Gehrig for consecutive games played and, on the same day in 1996, saw Eddie Murray smash his 500th career home run.\u00a0 On April 29, 2015, the park hosted the first game in MLB history to be closed to fans, due to riots in Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>I made my first visit to the stadium in the summer of 2019, with the Orioles taking on their longtime rival San Francisco Giants.\u00a0 We had to leave early, as the train we were planning to take to Washington after the game didn&#8217;t run on weekends, so alternate plans were needed.\u00a0 The game was kind of non-descript, as both teams were on a downward spiral, but I hope to make it back some day for a repeat performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the 2024 season officially wrapped up and the offseason now underway, we continue our tour of all of the different baseball stadiums I\u2019ve been to over the years. This week, we head east for a look at the Baltimore Orioles and their stadium that kicked off the retro craze.\u00a0 So, without further ado, let\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[5041,4758,4127,4759,256,115,8369,7447,50,8514],"class_list":["post-21822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-all-star-game","tag-cal-ripken","tag-camden-yards","tag-eddie-murray","tag-giants","tag-indians","tag-lou-gehrig","tag-memorial-stadium","tag-orioles","tag-rick-sutcliffe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21881,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21822\/revisions\/21881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}