Yakima is a very remote place in Washington, and the stadium reflects the size of the local town, seating just over 2,600 people. It’s a very basic looking ballpark, with no frills and metal bleachers for a majority of the seating. The one very cool thing the ballpark had was a miniature baseball field by the outside concourse for playing whiffle ball. Chris and I decided to conduct our very own home run derby contest and played each other for two rounds. During the first round, we ended up in a tie forcing us to do a final round to see who the champion would be. The video is below—the most interesting part is about halfway through a guy who worked for CBS came up to us and was very concerned about how the raffle ticket winner would get called if we were too busy with our home run derby. He obviously had purchased a number of tickets and wanted to know if he was going to win the game-used signed bat (he didn’t).

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