While in San Francisco I managed to see two baseball games.
On Sunday I took BART over to Oakland to see the A's play the Yankees. That game had the greatest ending I've ever seen in a game. The A's are down 4-2 with two outs in the bottom of the 9th. Two men are on base. Marco Scutaro, who was 1-22 so far on the season is at the plate facing Mariano Rivera, perhaps the greatest closer in baseball history. With two strikes on him Scutaro hits a shot to left field. It hits way up on the foul pole. Three-run homer. The crowd goes crazy and Scutaro goes crazy as he circles the bases. Awesome!
A few nights later Jeff and I go see the Giants play the Cards at chilly AT&T Park. Barry Bonds is playing! In the eighth inning Barry Bonds hits a solo home run (home run # 738) into McCovey Cove to tie the game. In the bottom of the twelfth, Rich Aurilia singles in Randy Winn to win the game four hours after the game began.
I've now seen a game in fourteen different stadiums (stadia?). In no particular order:
1. Shea*, New York
2. Yankee, New York
3. Fenway Park, Boston
4. Cleveland Municipal* (R.I.P. - nothing like 3,000 people in an 80,000 seat stadium)
5. Riverfront, Cincinnati (R.I.P. - not really, it was an awful stadium)
6. Metrodome, Minneapolis
7. SkyDome, Toronto
8. Candlestick, San Francisco (no longer used for baseball but still there)
9. Kauffmann Stadium, Kansas City
10. Tiger*, Detroit (R.I.P.)
11. Dodger, Los Angeles (accidentally drank beer in the alcohol-free family section. Oops.)
12. Coors Field, Denver
13. MacAfee Coliseum, Oakland
14. AT&T, San Francisco
*multiple games
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