Something I forgot to mention in yesterday\u2019s post is that the Giants do not always play at 1:05 pm on Saturday afternoons. They usually play at night \u2013 meaning this day would not be possible without a scheduled afternoon game.<\/p>\n
Nicole and I drove to her conference on Saturday morning. We parked the car around 12:15 pm and I walked over to AT&T Park \u2013 about a 20 minute walk from Market St. and 6th St.<\/p>\n
Obtaining Tickets<\/u>
As with any baseball game that is not sold out, cheaper tickets can be found outside the stadium. I talked to a couple of scalpers on my walk to the stadium, but none of them wanted sell a ticket below $10. I figured I could find a $10 seat and waited to see if I could get a free ticket.<\/p>\n
As I approached the Willie Mays statue, I found a guy with a $42 ticket who was willing to sell it for $20. The seat was down the left field line. I rejected the offer because I still only wanted to pay $10. However, I found it difficult to buy a $10 ticket. Scalpers wanted $15 or $20 \u2013 not too much more than I wanted to pay but enough when I knew I could buy a $10 ticket.<\/p>\n
The line to buy tickets at the box office was incredibly long. That is when I discovered that the Giants now have ticket kiosks where you can buy a ticket. No need to wait in the box office line. In addition, I believe you can buy tickets at any time \u2013 day or night. I approached the screen and punched in the correct game \u2013 the cheapest seat was $26.50. \u201cYikes,\u201d I thought. Let\u2019s go back and talk with the scalpers. I even went back to the fan who offered me the $42 ticket for $20. Of course, he was gone.<\/p>\n
After some haggling I finally bought one of the Giants variable priced tickets for $10. Not my best effort but the best with what I was given today.<\/p>\n
The Game<\/u>
I ended up walking over to the $42 seat area and found a bunch of empty seats down the left field line and in the shade where I sat for the entire game.<\/p>\n
Barry Zito won his third consecutive decision for the first time since May 23-June 4, 2007 (he is 3-0 in his last four starts) as the Giants defeated the Reds 4-2 in 2 hours and 44 minutes \u2013 the perfect game ending time for me. The game ended about 3:50 pm and I was off to Nicole\u2019s presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Something I forgot to mention in yesterday\u2019s post is that the Giants do not always play at 1:05 pm on Saturday afternoons. They usually play at night \u2013 meaning this day would not be possible without a scheduled afternoon game.
\nNicole and I drove to her conference on Saturday morning. We parked the car around 12:15 pm and I walked over to AT&T Park \u2013 about a 20 minute walk from Market St. and 6th St.
\nObtaining TicketsAs with any baseball game that is not sold out, cheaper tickets can …<\/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":[72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840"}],"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=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}