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Orioles can’t leave Camden Yards after game because of protests

By Will Osgood

Oct 11, 2014; Baltimore, MD, USA; A general view during the National Anthem before game two of the 2014 ALCS playoff between the Kansas City Royals and Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Mandatory Credit: David Cooper-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 11, 2014; Baltimore, MD, USA; A general view during the National Anthem before game two of the 2014 ALCS playoff between the Kansas City Royals and Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Mandatory Credit: David Cooper-USA TODAY Sports /
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Orioles fans couldn’t leave Camden Yards when the Red Sox-Orioles game ended late Saturday night due to protests outside of the yard. 

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It’s not everyday baseball fans are desperate to leave a baseball stadium. The common baseball fan goes to a game hoping to see a great game and get their money’s worth, especially in this day and age where one game costs an arm and leg.

Yet frustration from fans in not being able to leave Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland were understandable Saturday night, when they were not allowed to leave the yard due to protests outside the stadium.

For what it’s worth, though, their not being allowed to leave Saturday night was for their own good, as the protests would have created a nightmare for Baltimore police, and who knows what might have happened if they’d given free reign to the fans to leave.

Several photos surfaced on social media from fans stuck inside the stadium. Here are just a few:

And this one:

As the latter tweet mentions, the lockdown was called by Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake in hopes of clearing the immediate area surrounding the stadium.  Fans were not left in the dark, as an announcement was made in the stadium as to why they were not being allowed to leave.

Luckily for the City of Baltimore and the mayor’s office, some time was bought for them based on the fact that the contest between the Boston Red Sox and hometown Orioles went to extra innings–though just one–ending in happy fashion for the home team when David Lough hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 10th against closer Koji Uehara.

O’s manager Buck Showalter kept the win in perspective, though, when speaking after the game.

To his credit, he had a pretty great reaction to Lough’s dramatic home run.

The protest, of course, came in light of the death of Freddie Gray who passed away on April 19 after police were reportedly slow to call for an ambulance upon his arrest on April 12.  That death has led to many protests in the city and caused quite an uproar over the last couple weeks. Still, it’s unfortunate that those events intertwined on Saturday night. Baseball fans shouldn’t have to be reminded of them when going to a game.  They were finally rewarded for their patience, however, at about 10 PM ET.  

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