06/13/17 - Day 71 - Boston, MA - Red Sox
Made the requisite visit to Fenway Park to witness a Red Sox game in person with the locals. Fenway is the oldest operating park in Major League Baseball. Since opening in 1912, it's been renovated and expanded several times, but because of it's age and constrained location, it still has one of the lowest seating capacity limits in baseball (less than 38,000). The team is very popular here and tickets are harder to come by than in either of the New York stadiums I visited. After fees, I ended up paying $40 for bleacher seats in the outfield, more than twice what I paid for the Mets or Yankees for a lower tier game against the Phillies. Against the Yankees the price probably would have been doubled again.
They have a pretty big pregame scene outside the park leading up to the game.
There are some oddball features in the park, including a section of the grandstand that faces away from home base, many obstructed view seats, and the famous Green Monster in left field. They have electronic video and scoreboards, but they also maintain an old school manually updated score box in the outfield.
The game itself was ok. I ended up staying way longer than I expected. Boston had a 3-2 lead going in to the sixth before the Phillies tied it up. I had planned to leave after "Sweet Caroline" at the bottom of the 8th, but the tie carried all the way into extra innings and for some reason I wanted to see the finish. Also, the folks around me were hilarious.
After the 10th though, I'd had enough and headed back home. I'd been there over three and half hours and didn't get back to the apartment until 11:30pm (the game started @ 7:10pm). It ended up going two more innings until Boston generated a winning run in the bottom of the 12th to end the game 4.5 hours after it started. That's the first game I've attended on this trip where the home team ended up winning, so that's a nice change.
This guy knows what's up.
They have a pretty big pregame scene outside the park leading up to the game.
There are some oddball features in the park, including a section of the grandstand that faces away from home base, many obstructed view seats, and the famous Green Monster in left field. They have electronic video and scoreboards, but they also maintain an old school manually updated score box in the outfield.
The game itself was ok. I ended up staying way longer than I expected. Boston had a 3-2 lead going in to the sixth before the Phillies tied it up. I had planned to leave after "Sweet Caroline" at the bottom of the 8th, but the tie carried all the way into extra innings and for some reason I wanted to see the finish. Also, the folks around me were hilarious.
After the 10th though, I'd had enough and headed back home. I'd been there over three and half hours and didn't get back to the apartment until 11:30pm (the game started @ 7:10pm). It ended up going two more innings until Boston generated a winning run in the bottom of the 12th to end the game 4.5 hours after it started. That's the first game I've attended on this trip where the home team ended up winning, so that's a nice change.
This guy knows what's up.
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