Orioles "Home" Games Draw Modest Crowds To Tropicana Field

The Rays have been "cordial hosts" to the Orioles this weekend, as the O's played their planned home series at Tropicana Field due to civil unrest in Baltimore. The Rays "went as far as expediting a shipment of Baltimore's own Berger cookies for the media dining room in time for Friday's series opener." The music for batters' walk-ups and pitchers' entrances "was the same as that played for the Orioles" at Camden Yards. An announced crowd of 9,945 on Friday "paid $15 each to sit anywhere in the lower deck" (Baltimore SUN, 5/2). Yesterday's game drew 12,789 fans, "each of whom paid $18 for general-admission seating" (Baltimore SUN, 5/3).