Tuesday March 7th 2017

Today I went to another spring training game. This game was at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick in Scottsdale. Scottsdale is northeast of Phoenix about sixty miles from here.

Google Earth view of the Salt River Fields at Talking Stick. The left field area at the top of the picture is for the Diamondbacks and the right field area at the bottom of the picture is for the Rockies.

The Salt River Fields at Talking Stick complex is shared by the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Colorado Rockies. It is a modern facility with two sets of everything from batting cages to practice fields. Before the game it was possible to see Rockies players doing bunt drills and Arizona players taking batting practice on different fields surrounding the main stadium.

View from the area of my seat before the game. I had a very good seat for the game.

Strike three and he’s out.

The game I went to see was between the Oakland Athletics and the Arizona Diamondbacks. It was a good game from an action point of view because the pitching was terrible. The A’s went down in order in the top of the first inning, but that was the last quick half. The home team scored five runs in the bottom of the first. It took over an hour for the first two and a half innings, then another hour for the next two inning. The sixth inning was particularly long. The A’s scored eleven runs. The final score was Athletics 21 Diamondbacks 13.

Moon rising over the light post. Thought they might both be shinning brightly before the game got over.

Final score on the big screen.

The game ended at 5PM, just short of four hours from the 1:10PM start time. Most of the eight thousand plus in attendance had already left by the end of the game. It made getting out of the parking lot and to the highway easy. Once on the highway I had to deal with rush hour traffic most of the way back to my camp. It took almost twice as long to get home than it did getting to the park.

It was an enjoyable game. I want to try and go to a Rockies game there as well so I can compare the experience.