Friday, April 17, 2015
Anaheim Angels
#20 - Attended a game here with Trudii on 4/12/15. Sunday afternoon game. Angels v Royals. CJ Wilson v Yordano Ventura. Ventura dealt early. Upper 90s fastballs, I think he hit 100 on the gun once. Royals won a lopsided 9-2 game. Pujols hit a bomb becoming him 18th on the all time HR list and there was a bench clearing moment when Yordano talked some trash to Mike Trout when scoring the Angels 2nd run. I was very surprised to learn that the stadium was the 4th oldest in baseball. Positioned out on the freeway, surrounded by parking lots on all sides there wasn't much going on (couple of tailgaters, but not a scene). Cool entrances which they clearly put some money into recently with some over sized bats and hats on the pavilion. Once inside the stadium it had a closed concourse that was pretty tight, but not bad considering it's 1966 bones. LOTS of concessions, pretty much all open space was consumed by a food or beer vendors. Not the least of which was Panda Express (TWO locations!). Coors light cost me $11.75, Corona's going for $13 Ouch!!! They had some patios and outdoor access from the concourse which I thought was nice. From inside the stadium, we sat 5th row 1B side trending toward right field. Seats faced dead center field. Had to do a major neck crane to view home plate, but the leg room was significant. Great batters eye, with the rock feature and waterfall, but pretty much no common areas that faced the fields. Other thing that stood out was that there were NO on foot beer vendors, that was a first. My head is kind of at a C- on this one. Nothing was horrible, but it wasn't average. It was plain and simple below average. Seems better because the team is sexy, but it's not a good stadium.
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