As expected, I arrived at US Cellular Field and bought an upper deck ticket from the box office for $8.50. I talked to one scalper who wanted $15 for a \u201cbetter\u201d upper deck ticket but I declined. The surprising part was that my seat was \u201cLimited View\u201d \u2013 meaning I was behind one of the poles atop the stadium. Obviously, other fans agreed with my thoughts that it was better to watch the Indians and White Sox play for an $8.50 upper deck seat than the Cubs and White Sox for $100 for the same seat. Every seat was sold for last night\u2019s game. The White Sox ended up selling Standing Room Only tickets.<\/p>\n
There were actually a few milestones achieved in last night\u2019s game. Most were achieved by the White Sox\u2019s Nick Swisher. Swisher hit a grand slam in last night\u2019s game. I was also at the White Sox game on Friday vs. the Cubs, in which Swisher also hit a grand slam. That made him the first player since Carlos Beltran in 2006 to hit two grand slams in 4 games.<\/p>\n
Also, Swisher became the first White Sox\u2019s player ever to hit a home run from both sides of the plate twice in the same season. He hit home runs from both side of the plate last night and on June 9 vs. the Minnesota Twins. I had planned to attend the game on June 9th but decided not to at the last minute. Too bad, I could have seen a White Sox first.<\/p>\n
In another rare occurrence, Jhonny Peralta went 5-for-5. Alfonso Soriano batted 5-for-5 vs. the Pirates on May 17, 2008<\/a> in a game I was at. However, Scott Rolen was the only player I saw hit safely 5 times in one game in 2007. He went 5-for-6 on April 22, 2007<\/a> vs. the Cubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As expected, I arrived at US Cellular Field and bought an upper deck ticket from the box office for $8.50. I talked to one scalper who wanted $15 for a \u201cbetter\u201d upper deck ticket but I declined. The surprising part was that my seat was \u201cLimited View\u201d \u2013 meaning I was behind one of the poles atop the stadium. Obviously, other fans agreed with my thoughts that it was better to watch the Indians and White Sox play for an $8.50 upper deck seat than the Cubs and White Sox …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}