Ballpark Assessment
| Category Score (0 to 10) | TOTAL (0 to 50) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location | Atmosphere | Food | Exterior Architecture | Interior Architecture | |
| 8 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 26 |
Although it was a dome stadium (probably a good thing given that it is Houston), its not as bland/blah/boring as most dome stadium tend to be. You could see the Houston skyline through a large window that spans left field end-to-end.
Game Comments (courtesy of MLB.com)
Game Date: May 9, 2010
Attendance: 23,526
Weather: 73 degrees F, roof closed
Length of Game: 2 hours, 52 minutes
Final Score: Houston Astros 4, San Diego Padres 3
Astros hit back-to-back home runs in the 6th inning. Astros were down 3 to 2 going into the bottom of the ninth and tied it up to send into extra innings. Astros win with an RBI hit in the 11th with the bases loaded.
Brad Mills' first ejection awoke the Astros, who got homers from Hunter Pence and Carlos Lee in the sixth and knotted the game in the ninth to force extra innings. It set the stage for Pence's walk-off double in the 11th.
Stories from the Road
I visited Discovery Green, one of the many green spaces in downtown Houston. With its grass amphitheater and ornamental oddities, the park is very reminiscent of Millenium Park in Chicago. When I was there, some sort of classic rock band was playing for the city's summer concert series.
The skyscrapers in downtown Houston are impressive and new, but all of them seem to be stand-alone buildings with very few streetside shops and eateries. As might be expected, the Tex Mex is fantastic!
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