Thursday March 31st 2016

Today was partly cloudy with the high in the upper 80s. It was a good day for a ballgame. I went to see the St Louis Cardinals play the New York Yankees in Tampa Fl.

Electronic Score board at George M. Steinbrenner Field

The spring training home for the Yankees is at George M. Steinbrenner Field. The facility is located across the street from the home of the Tampa Bay Bucaneers Football team Raymond James Stadium. They share parking facilities. The seats at this stadium were probably the most comfortable of the four stadiums I went to games at this spring. They seemed wider with more leg room. It was a clean and modern facility.

The Tampa Yankees play at this stadium when it’s not being used for NY Yankee spring training.

The Cardinals won the game decisively 9 to 1. Both teams had most of their regular season rosters start the game. It was the Cardinals starters that ran up most of the runs against the Yankees. The Yankee’s one run came late in the game against the substitutes. The Cardinals had the home run ball going in this game.
As with most of these spring training games the visiting team had as many fans at the game as the home team. Cardinal red was all around the stadium. Even on the first base (Yankee) side of the park where I was sitting there were a lot of Cardinal fans. I think this mix makes the game more enjoyable when you don’t have a particular bias for one team or another.
I enjoyed the game, but paid the penalty during the drive home. The traffic along Interstate 4 at rush hour was very slow. Not having had any ballpark food I was really hungry when I got home to my hot RV. I turned on the air conditioning and cooked supper.