Once again there was a rain delay on a Friday afternoon at Wrigley Field. However, this time the delay was only 25 minutes. <\/p>\n
Obtaining Tickets<\/u>
After the All-Star break last year, the Cubs changed their day of game ticket selling rules \u2013 no longer could you buy tickets when the box office opened at 9 am. Instead, the box office opens 2 hours before the game and fans must enter Wrigley Field immediately after purchasing their ticket. At the time, I did not like the new rule. However, in retrospect, every time I have tried to purchase a ticket for popular games on game day \u2013 tickets are available up to game time. <\/p>\n
However, when it starts to rain, I do not like the rule. Since I live less than one block away, I prefer to stay in my house during a rain delay. Thus, if there is a rain delay, I prefer not to buy a ticket from the box office and enter the stadium immediately. <\/p>\n
Rather than buy a ticket from the box office, I decided to buy a ticket from a scalper. Since the game was against the Cardinals I did not know what price to expect. Initially, I offered a scalper face value for her ticket. But she wanted to see if she could sell her 4-pack for face value ($22 each). However, I was able to buy a $45 face value ticket for $20 from a fan who walked by a few minutes later.<\/p>\n
With my ticket in hand, I waited in my house during the rain delay and walked over once the first pitch was thrown.<\/p>\n
The Game<\/u>
The Cubs played terrible defense and lost to the Cardinals 8-3. Even though Derrek Lee tied the game with a 3-run home run in the bottom of the 3rd inning, poor fielding did the Cubs in \u2013 the highlight being Alfonso Soriano dropping Yodier Molina\u2019s fly ball to left which allowed a run to score in the Cardinals 4-run 6th inning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Once again there was a rain delay on a Friday afternoon at Wrigley Field. However, this time the delay was only 25 minutes.
\nObtaining TicketsAfter the All-Star break last year, the Cubs changed their day of game ticket selling rules \u2013 no longer could you buy tickets when the box office opened at 9 am. Instead, the box office opens 2 hours before the game and fans must enter Wrigley Field immediately after purchasing their ticket. At the time, I did not like the new rule. …<\/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":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819"}],"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=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}