A few months ago Enedina suggested to Monica and I that we three should try to get to Coors Field and see a Rockies game this summer. Long story made short: the Giants came to town for a four game series recently and the three of us were part of the 47,494 fans who showed up to take in the game May 19th. An added bonus: it just happened to be Danté Bichette bobblehead day!
It was a perfect day for baseball: cool breezes, partly cloudy skies, and temperatures in upper 60s/low 70s. It was a Bay Area kind of day.
Monica went out and bought a Rockies shirt for the occasion and Enedina, the one true Colorado fan in our family, was resplendent in her sparkly purple-on-black Rockies tank top. I wore the black hat of the defending World Series Champion Giants. We had pretty good seats along the leftfield line, too, a few rows up and over from the Giants dugout. It had been years since I went to a ballgame as fan and had a beer, hot dog and a pretzel. I was surprised by how much I was looking forward to going to the game.
Now on any given day I could probably tell you what the Rockies did the night before, who had a big game at the plate or which pitcher got shelled, not because I’m a fan per say, but mostly because of workplace osmosis. I can’t say the same for the Giants, except that San Francisco starting pitching has had a sporadic first half. But I grew up in the Bay Area, and having the chance to play the contrarian amid a sea of purple-clad Rockies fans…well, I couldn’t let the opportunity pass.
It was short-lived. Colorado drilled San Francisco 5-0 and pounded out 14 hits in doing so. It could have been worse too, seeing as the Rockies left 12 runners on base. Barry Zito, the Giants darling of last year’s post-season run, took the loss and Juan Nicasio who pitched into the seventh inning for the first time this season, got the win. The Rockies took the series 3-1, a fact a Rockies fan gleefully reminded me of as Monica, Enedina, and I headed back to the car, our bobbleheads in tow, at the end of a very enjoyable Sunday.
