But, then we decided we wanted to go to the Salt River Fields at Talking Stick and see the Colorado Rockies play. There is only one week of Spring Training left and it turned out the only game we could get tickets for was a Saturday night game...
Not knowing what Saturday traffic would be like, we left Auntie Violet a little after four o'clock. But, wouldn't you know, traffic was not bad at all and it only took us a half hour or so to get to the ball park. It was actually kind of nice, we had plenty of time to look around, get some brats with grilled peppers and onions and find our seats. Talking Stick is the only ball park I've been at that had a Jack Daniels vender. Forry thought that was pretty neat.
One thing really nice about this park is the shuttles they run between the parking lot and the stadium.
The Talking Stick complex is owned by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and houses both the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Colorado Rockies for Spring Training. A portion of the Salt River winds around the stadium --
Since we were early, we watched the grounds crew getting the field ready. By the time the game started that grassy area in the outfield was solid with people sitting on the grass. The game was sold-out.
The first time we were here was right after it opened two years ago. We were only able to get seats in the bleacher section and quickly decided we were way too old to sit in seats without backs.
Tonight our seats were in Section 210, which once again had us sitting behind that protective net behind home plate. This is the Colorado Rockies mascot Dingle, a baby dinosaur..?
He's kinda cute, but I think the Spokanasaurus of the Spokane Indians is cuter...
The Rockies were playing the San Diego Padres. The wind was blowing towards the outfield, which made for 8 home runs! The Padres had three of them, but the Rockies beat them 10-4.
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