2021 Spring Training in the Cactus League begins February 29th. I’m not sure if I will drive up to Phoenix to attend this year, but here is a post looking back to 2019. It was the first Spring Training game I had ever seen: Dodgers vs. Angels.
Best seats in the stadium
My seat at the Dodgers/Angels spring training game in Tempe in 2019 was in the same place as the best seats in Dodger Stadium: close to First Base where much of the real action occurs. And it turned out that foul ball after foul ball after tossed-by-a-player ball ended up in our section. Here are photos of three of the “fan-catchers” at the game.
This guy sat next to me and while I ducked and held my hands in top of my head he reached up and caught a foul ball. He lives in Phoenix but has friends in L.A.
After the guy in the red shirt took his baseball and went home, this man sat beside me and he,too, caught a ball. This ball was thrown into the crowd by a player. Sorry, don’t remember which one. Nice tats.
The woman is holding this ball, but the half-hidden man seated to the left in the LA cap actually caught this foul ball. It was a pretty grey-haired crowd at the game. Everyone enthusiastic and chatting. We all seemed to be sitting in the “lucky zone” for foul balls.
Great day to watch them play baseball. While many of the players this day were rookies, not the regular team members, as one fan pointed out: one of those rookies will end up being ‘Rookie of the Year’. Dodgers won 6 to 4.
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