Pittsburgh Pirates @ San Francisco Giants (game 4)

The final game of the series was a day game with a 12.45pm start.  I managed to miss the first half inning of this game again.  Being a day game meant that my seat was out in the sun, and today was really hot - the temperature in the shade was over 32C/90F.

I had lunch inside, and then walked all the way along the club level to the far end so have a look out over the bay properly.

On the way back, I stopped to chat to Angelique, the friendly usher I meet at the ballpark each year.  She's going to be working at the new basketball centre just down the road as well as at Oracle Park now, and sometimes doing the concerts (Sir Elton John is there this weekend, and she's going to see that, too)

There were really long queues for the ice creams, as you can see from the photo.

We had Jeff Samardzija pitching this game and he did OK, but gave up 1 run here, 1 run there and eventually it was 4-0.  However, the Giants fought back to 4-2 and had the winning run, in the form of Buster Posey, up to bat, but he couldn't get hit.

I did not hurry back to my hotel, as my dinner booking was for 7pm in Oakland, so I had plenty of time, but it still took 30 minutes to get to the BART station and I was lucky to get a train across to Oakland, because further back down the line, there was a medical emergency that closed the 24th St station and stopped things running for a bit.  In the end, I got down to Kincaid's just about on 7pm.  I like watching the sunset here (and at McCormick & Kuleto's at Ghirardelli Square as well as at Chart House on Pier 39)   Not so many boats arriving back at the marina tonight, but still a lovely sight.

I took the cable car on the way back again - they are closing the cable cars down for 10 days starting tomorrow in order to carry out maintenance on the Powell-Hyde gearing mechanism.  Unfortunately, the P-H gear that's being refurbished is the one that also drives the cable in and out of the depot, so none of the cable cars can function anywhere in the city, so I've been fortunate with the timing of my visit!
Location: 24 Willie Mays Plaza, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA

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