2004 Baseball

Tigers 11 Mariners 10, 11 innings

Saturday Night
Comerica Park
With Jamie and Marc

We had some bad traffic on the way to the game and arrived very late- 5th inning late. The game was almost sold out late. We pulled up next to burned out and falling apart buildings and houses. Ah, Detroit how I missed thee.

We bought our 15 dollar standing room tickets and went in. And I was more than pleasantly surprised with the place.

I like all the tiger statues outside the park as they crawl all over the park. Some of them have baseballs in their mouths. There are giant tigers everywhere. You can see the field from the street which is also amazing. I like the Ferris wheel and carousel and I especially like the statues of former Tiger players in the outfield. I like the many walkways and levels and stairs where you can see the game. It kind of reminded me of Coors Field in that respect.

It was a beautiful night but we still couldn’t believe how packed it was. I had no idea they drew this well in this ballpark. My only complaint about the park? I hate the General Motors fountain and the jeeps over the centerfield wall. Also, they need to do something about the leftfield fence. They moved it in so now there is blank space between the wall and the fans. It looks stupid.

When we arrived in the bottom of the 5th, the Mariners were winning 6-3. We just were hoping for extra innings. We got that and a whole lot more. In the first two innings, we were there, the two teams combined for 11 runs. The Tigers scored 4 in the 5th to take the lead. The Mariners tied it at 7 in the 6th only to see the Tigers score 3 more in the bottom of the inning. So Seattle promptly tied at 10 in the 7th. In the 11th, Craig Monroe’s single won it for Detroit. The teams combined for 36 hits- 5 players had at least 3 hits, led by Randy Winn’s 5. Ichiro and Ivan Rodriguez each had four and former Mariner (wow what a bad trade for Seattle) Carlos Guillen added 6 RBIs. It was a crazy game. I definitely would like to go back to Detroit for another game. Comerica Park is no Tiger Stadium, but it is one of the better new parks.

Posted by dan at August 21, 2004 05:24 PM