Arizona Diamondbacks @ San Francisco Giants (game 2)

Thursday was 11th September, as lots of commemoration activity was expected.  However, when I went down to the metro stop, there was a technical problem at Van Ness, further out of town, that stopped everything coming inbound.  This was going to be fixed "shortly" for about 40 minutes before services started again, so I missed the first two innings of today's game and all the ceremonials.

No problems with the temperature today, though, as being a day game it was pleasant to sit in the shade right behind the plate, but up just in front of the commentary boxes.

In this game, we have Jake Peavy going and after this first rough outing when we acquired him earlier in the year, he's turned out to be a really good pick up - Peavy came out of the game with a lot of pitches in the 6th inning having given up the first run to Arizona, and although they would later add a second run, the Giants already had 3 on the board, and added another 3 in the bottom of the 7th to cement a 6-2 victory.

Lou Seal visited our section during the 7th inning stretch to distribute bags of peanuts - by randomly throwing them in different directions, so everybody had to pay attention to avoid maybe getting hit on the head!  He got one stuck on an antenna attached to the next deck and managed to get one through the open window into the radio commentary box, which caught Kuiper & Krukow by surprise as it flew between their heads whilst they weren't watching.

As the stadium was emptying after today's game, and the announcement of the next game was made, the stadium was already ringing to the chants of "BEAT L.A.!"

I had never understood why it takes so long to get everybody back downtown after the ballgame on the metro.  It takes half an hour with lots of waiting around at a standstill because of the congestion on the line, despite there being only a few trains.  Maybe they should consider running a shuttle service between Embarcadero and the ballpark, just for half an hour after the game to try to clear the crowds as quickly as possible.  As each train only have 2 carriages, it takes quite a few to carry people back.