San Francisco Giants @ Boston Red Sox (game 3)

The final game in Boston saw our best pitcher, Madison Bumgarner - whose nickname Mad Bum and number 40 are on my hat - pitching.  This game should have been our best chance of winning any of the games in the series, but it turned out to be the only one we lost.

The weather is certainly turning autumnal, as it was chilly again at the time I left, but due to get quite warm in the middle of the day, up to 28C/82F or maybe higher.

My seat was in the Grandstand, section 25, where the seats are quite narrow - they are still the original seating layout from when the park was constructed over 100 years ago.

I still couldn't see the main scoreboard properly because of the pillar obstructing the view, but I was able to see left field, which had been tricky in the first two games as I was on top of the wall that you can see in the second picture.  In those two games, I was sitting either side of the right-hand lighting stanchion.

The hand-operated scoreboard is one of the last remaining in baseball.  San Francisco has one of the other few, although at Oracle Park, they can change the scores from inside the scoreboard.  Here, people have to come out the little door ()nect to the W.B.Mason sign) between innings and hang the new numbers on the scoreboard, as they are doing in this photo.


Madison gave up 5 runs and wasn't really sharp today, which was a shame.  However, the Giants staged something of a miracle comeback late on and scored some runs in the 8th inning, and left the bases loaded.  Then again in the 9th inning, 1 run behind, the last out was made with runners on all the bases - so it was a game that we could have won in the end.

People photos have been awkward here because of the lighting level difference between the field and in the grandstand.  The suggestion of the person who took this one was to not have so much field in the picture, which worked nicely.

On the way out after the game, I saw lots of the displays that are attached directly to the brick walls of the ballback.  Memorabilia and other things, and this wall of all the major team records.  I had some time to spare until my booked dinner time of 6.30pm, because I didn't know how long the game would go on, so couldn't set it too early.  So I spent a while  just looking at things before finally leaving.

So that's 7 games that I saw the Giants play and they went 3-4 in those games, which was disappointing, but I did see Bruce Bochy's 2000th career managerial victory, and I have the pin that Angelique gave me in San Francisco that reads "Thank you, Boch!"
Location: 4 Yawkey Way, Boston, MA 02215, USA

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