Baseball!! New York Yankees vs Baltimore Orioles

We booked these tickets about three months ago, to a matinee game of Orioles vs Yankees, in Baltimore. We deliberately left the baby at home with a sitter, and boy were we glad we did that.
I loved it! The atmosphere of expectation, the lights, the crowd entertainment, the security rushing on after each innings (and off as the next innings started), it was all really cool. I hope we get to some more baseball games next year (season nearly finished this year). It was refreshing to watch a truly non-contact sport actually. No-one was trying to physically rip anyone's ears off or anything.
We had pretty good seats, middling in quality. As it happened, we were in the middle of a whole lot of Yankees fans, but that didn't stop the atmosphere being really nice. People were very relaxed, generally very respectful, and really just there to watch the game, not get all het up because the ref made a bad call.
Major League baseball has a really long season - about 8 months? And they play games practically every night of the week, In fact, the game we watched was part of a triple header - Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights of Orioles vs Yankees.
Score ended up being 3-2 Yankees won, but it came down to the last Orioles batter in the last innings, needing to hit a ball such that he didn't get out and his team mate on 3rd got home without getting out. which he didn't, but it was heaps exciting!
Things I was surprised about:
Most innings were scoreless - ie, no-one got home, infact, hardly any people got to first base without getting out. There were lots of catches, and lots of good fielding, and lots of strikeouts. The 5 people that did get home were due to homeruns being hit. (Not even 5 home runs, but enough, maybe three, to get 5 people home).
They play that if three people get out, that is the end of your turn, so instead of like cricket, where you have to get the entire team out, here, you just have to get three out, and then it is your turn to bat. Probably just as well, given there are 9 innings.
How much movement there was in the audience - there was always someone walking up and down the aisle, getting in and out of a row, or selling cold beers. The New Yorkers commented that during an innings they don't let you walk up and down the aisle, you have to wait to the end of an innings. I support that idea!