Game 1 – Friday Night
Busch Stadium sits in the downtown area of St. Louis in the shadow of the Gateway Arch. The stadium is of the cookie-cutter variety – very round with multiple decks…I counted five decks behind home plate. The seats are all red, so it is difficult to see how many seats are empty because most of the Cardinal fans wear red. For this game, however, there was over 41,000 in attendance and it appeared there were very few empty seats.
We got to the game early to check out the park and watch batting practice. Here is something I didn’t know. Teams use their own baseballs during batting practice. While the Twins were taking batting practice, Keith caught a ball in the right field bleachers. The ball had the Metrodome stamped on the ball.
We tried the Bratzel. It was a bratwurst wrapped in a crescent roll. I think it was supposed to be more like a pretzel, but it wasn’t and it was probably the worst stadium food we have had.
When we got to our seats, we were a long way from home plate. We were about 20 rows up directly behind the right field foul pole. When you’re old like us [I am just a year younger than Michael Jackson (RIP) and Keith is more in the range of Farrah Fawcett (RIP)] you need to sit closer to the action to see the ball. It didn’t help that we were looking into the sun the first three innings and it was 95 degrees. Suggestion – don’t sit in the outfield at Busch stadium. I guess you can’t be too choosy when the tickets are part of the hotel package.
Many Twin’s faithful were in attendance and it’s always good to hear them cheer…and they had a lot to cheer about. Minnesota won 3-1 on a Perkins/Nathan 7-hitter. Nathan even struck out Albert Pujols (top player in the league) in the ninth inning with a runner in scoring position.
Tomorrow and Sunday are afternoon games. Both games game time temps are expected to reach into the upper 90’s.
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| June 26 |
RUNNING RECORD WINS
Home Team – 5
Away Team – 8
American League – 8
National League – 5
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