Take some antacid to the ball game

Skip the peanuts and popcorn, try the pizza, pretzels, pork and...knishes?

By Michael Lucinski

Special to Metromix
April 10, 2008

Take some antacid to the ball game
What? You think it's easy eating seven innings-worth of ballpark food? (Credit: Michael Lucinski)
Photos:
1st inning So far, so good 2nd inning 3rd inning

Can you smell the freshly cut outfield grass? Can you see the carefully laid baselines? Can you feel the trades of proven talent for prospects, forfeiting any immediate chance of winning? Baseball has returned to Baltimore! And that means the concessions have returned to Oriole Park at Camden Yards! As fans of both food and baseball, Metromix stepped up to the plate to sample some of the O's culinary offerings.

What follows is an inning-by-inning account of pigging out on ballpark food during a sparsely attended April contest between the Orioles and the Seattle Mariners. How did our GI tracts (and wallets) make out? Read on.

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