Yesterday I went to see the New York Yankees play the Baltimore Orioles. This was my first Baseball match and to be honest, I wasn’t very impressed.

It was an exciting game to start with – lots of home runs and balls flying into the crowd but after the 4th inning, I started to realise it was like watching a match between Chelsea and Hastings United. The Yankees made it look so easy and the Orioles looked as if they had given up and accepted they were going to lose this match big style.

If the game had finished at the 5th inning, I would have really enjoyed myself but when i realised it went through to 8 innings, I was just bored. There wasn’t any excitement in the game and no moments when a single player did something inspiring. The match started at 7pm, by 9:30 they had stopped serving beer and at 10:30 at the 6th innings we decided we had had enough and left. The stadium was pretty empty at that point so we couldn’t have been the only people who were getting bored.

From what I understand, baseball is played three days a week and they play the same team on all of those days. I would not go to see baseball every week let alone three times a week, its good for a one off event but I would be bored spending 4/5 hours watching a game. I get bored towards the end of football matches and they are only 90 minutes long!

One highlight of the game was the sand raking people who danced to the YMCA as they raked. I tried to get some pictures of them but I was sitting right at the top of the seating area so everything seemed like little dots even with my cameras zoom.

The game wouldn’t have taken so long had it not been for all the adverts and faffing from both the teams, it seems to take them 15 minutes plus to swap over the batting and fielding roles and sometimes they would faff before throwing the ball, it makes the match very difficult and unexciting to watch.

The atmosphere in the stadium was better than i thought it would be, there were several whole stadium Mexican waves and lots of cheering when there was a home run or a famous player coming onto the pitch but there were no away fans. In football I often get annoyed with the away fans chanting rude things at the home fans but I felt the baseball stadium lacked in atmosphere because it was just filled with Yankees fans, there was not competition. I actually felt sorry for the Orioles, it can’t be good going to another clubs grounds, not having any fans there to support you and then losing horrendously.