25,171 fans attended Tuesday night’s Orioles/Red Sox game and for the first time in years, the crowd was dominated by fans of the black and orange.
“[A] lot more Orioles fans than in pervious series or maybe they’re just louder/drunker,” MLB.com’s Brittany Ghiroli tweeted.
Hey, whatever it takes.
“My favorite part about tonight was the amazing O’s fans,” Orioles public address announcer Ryan Wagner tweeted. “Showed up big time. Never allowed the Sox fans to get going.”
As stupid as it sounds, hearing that the Orioles fans dominated the crowd at Camden Yards for a Red Sox series put a smile on my face. I’ve been to far too many games against Boston that felt like I had traveled north to Fenway Park. The “let’s go Red Sox” chants make my skin crawl when I’m sitting in the bleachers in Baltimore.
The times they are a changing.
The first place Orioles find themselves 6.5 games ahead of the last place Red Sox and suddenly the local support for the Red Sox has vanished. Fans are excited about the great baseball being played in Baltimore and they should be.
Let’s take back the Yard. Let’s fill the ballpark with black and orange every night. And let’s support the first place Orioles.
They deserve it.
The sad part is that all the fans want is a team to root for and for 14 years, they have given us nothing of the sort. Of course there have been bright spots with a few players but the team as a whole for lack of a better term has, “STUNK”!
Look, we’re over the qurter mark, 2 games in first, and 12 games over 500. No one expected anything like this. Most media sources were saying that this was going to possibly be the worst Orioles team to hit the field in the history of the franchise.
I’m glad it didn’t take long for the fans to start showing support at The Yard. At this point we all just need to have fun with it. If the fans feed off the teams energy, these guys will feed off of our energy in return.
But you can’t blame the fans who are still sitting on the sidelines. 14 years is a really long time and 44 games out of 162 isn’t going to make everyone jump up and start buying tickets. Although, it’s good to see that many people are and it will only get better once school is out.
Pig,
The point is fans AREN’T sitting on the sidelines. 25K people there last night predominately in Orioles orange. A smattering of Dicky Eklunds, but no where near the numbers from past years.
I also travelled down the parkway to DC to see the O’s play and the Orioles orange was WELL represnted there, too.
The point is, the fans ARE back and the bandwagon Red Sox fans have put their hats in the back of the closet and pulled out their O’s caps.
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The casual fan thinks baseball is dead in Baltimore , so it will take a long time to get them back , if they ever do. Angelos has left a bad taste in their mouths.
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