Someone's First Yankee Game

Back in March Corrie had a dilemma: she wanted my birthday present to be a surprise, but she also needed my advice and input on the acquisition of said present, which needed to be done right about then.

She was buying us Yankee tickets for the day game the one day we might have time, July 5th. It was early enough in the preseason to get nice tickets for a reasonable price, and she wanted some input on which seats.

We chose front row seats on the rail of just the second deck down the right field line. Essentially, they were glorious seats.

Check out Aaron Judge at the plate:

Well, the lenses of phone cameras always makes things too wide-angled and thus look far far away, but it felt super close.

The only real issue was that it felt super close to the sun as well.

We chose the seats because we were pretty sure they would be shaded by design of the stadium for the majority of the game. That turned out to be incorrect, but we never would have known until getting there, so we weren't upset.

Rundown and sun bleached, sure, but not angry.

We would take turns every so often taking Cass up into the shaded food- and beer-selling zones behind the seats to get out of the heat.

The game was exciting, against the Toronto Blue Jays. Aaron Judge hit a homer, his 29th of the season. That home run tied him with Joe Dimaggio for the most ever by a Yankee rookie. (Judge hit his 30th the next day.) Later on Korean rookie Choi hit a homer in just his second big league at bat.

The Yanks fell behind, battled back to take the lead, then lost the lead on a bases loaded walk, and eventually lost the game. That was a bummer, but it was exciting nonetheless.

Here's a weary surprisingly un-sunburned kiddo in need of a nap:

At the game we learned about something new: they give out certificates for first games! Corrie waited in line (with the Boy in the shade) to get the certificate, and we trucked it home, waiting for a frame:

After the game we headed back to Harlem on the 4 train, walked back to the Metro North stop, and rode back up to Kisco for the short drive to Bedford, so we got to skip most of the rush hour traffic.

It was my and Corrie's first trip back to the new Yankees Stadium since it opened back in 2009.