AT&T Ballprak, San Francisco
The Next stop after Seattle was San Francisco and the Bay area. We traveled down Interstate 5 through Oregon and then headed over to Highway 101 so we could see Redwoods. They were stunning! The biggest trees I have ever scene.
A Day Late
The biggest thing about this game was not anything that happened this day but what had happened the night before. Matt Cain threw the Major League's 22nd Perfect game. WE MISSED IT BY LESS THAN 24 HRS. This was the first Perfect game in the Giants 128 yrs. of existence. The Ballpark was still buzzing the day we were there and that is all we heard about on sports radio until we left the Bay area.
We arrived in San Francisco later than expected because I forgot to make sure of the game time. It was a day game starting at 12:45pm. We left in plenty of time to get to the game on time but we hit horrible traffic in the downtown area.
I felt very rushed getting to the ballpark as we were now running late but once I saw it all I could think about was, "sweet let's get inside." The inside was rather bland we walked around the 1st base side and behind right field to get to our seats. Right field is right on McCovey cove a body of water that connects to the bay. There is a high brick wall in right field and if you hit it over the wall and it goes into the water they call it a splash down home run. There have only been 60 hit in the park's lifetime.
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| Right Field Wall. Just behind it is McCovey's Cove |
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| McCovey's Cove |
Our seats were good ones although quite expensive for bleacher seats. we were pretty close to the field and had a good view of the action. we ended up missing the first half inning because of the atrocious traffic but at least we didn't miss anything that eventful.
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| View From Our Seats |
The Game
During the game there were a few cool things that happened. The game was fairly low scoring at 6-3with the Astros winning. Early the Astros hit a solo home run to left field that was a bout 30ft. to my right when looking at the field and 5 rows above us. Which is quite a shot. then later the Astros loaded the bases against Barry Zito and JD Martinez hit a grand slam that was right over my head but almost 10 rows behind me. This may have actually been the first grand slam I have seen in person at a major league game. They don't come around too often. Then later in the game Brandon Belt came up to bat and stepped into the lefthanded batter's box and pulled a pitch deep into right field. the ball was up and over the brick wall bounced onto the walk way and fell into the water. A splash down home run!! The Giants then had water blast up from just behind the brick wall to celebrate the 61st splash down home run. It was very cool to see the "splash dow hits" scoreboard go up one notch. A guy in a kayak paddled over and got the ball.
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| Willie Mays Staute |
The Ballpark
After the game dad and I walked around the ballpark and the outside was Very nice! It was a beautiful ballpark from the outside. with plenty of palm trees and with the cove right there. There is also a marina just behind center field which looked nice as well. The ballpark signs were very classy looking and worked very well with the brick of the stadium. There were also statues of Willie Mays, Willie McCovey and Juan Mirachal. These statues were awesome esp. the Willie Mays one. Behind the right field wall there are plaques in the ground to commemorate special moments in Giants History like Barry Bond's 500th, 600th, 700th, 715th and 756th Home runs, Jonathan Sanchez's no-hitter and a few other ones as well. This was pretty cool. They will soon be adding one for the perfect game that Matt Cain threw the day before we were there. Other than that the inside was rather bland except for a cool display of donors with silver bats, gold gloves wooden bats and balls.
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