Game 4: SF@NYM

Game 4 of our trip featured the San Fransisco Giants at the New York Mets. For this game, we had a special guest join us at Citi Field, my brother Harrison.

Pregame

Citi Field was quite the experience. We started by trying to gather as many balls as we could. It started with Hisanori Takahashi, the Japanese pitcher on the Mets. We met an man with his kid who had the Japanese translation for "Excuse me, can you please give us a ball." Turns out it worked like a charm. He was however, amused by our pronunciation of the phrase, and asked us to repeat it a number of times. That was only the first of our many balls. Next came out best friend, Frank Catalanotto.

Just as we had in Philly, we yelled for Frank throughout warm ups. We were there early enough that we could yell loud enough for him to understand us. We asked him if he remembered our "Frank Catalanatto Fan Club", and he acknowledged us. He then gave us 2 balls, one of which was given to my brother. Since I am writing this post way after game night, I am going to give a shout out to Frank. He was recently cut by the Mets and we all want to give him out praise. He was a great ballplayer who was under appreciated.

The worst pitcher in baseball history, Todd Wellemeyer, also gave us a ball, which was our 4th ball of the night. Sam also decided that it would be a good idea to drop 2 balls. Nice Job!!!

Batting practice was otherwise pretty uneventful. We tried to get Frank's autograph, but were unsuccessful.

The Game

The starters for the game were Mike Pelfry for the Mets, and Jonathan Sanchez for the Giants. Pelfry was dealing. He got into the 8th inning and gave up 3 runs. He really was solid. Sanchez on the other hand, was just OK. He pitched 7 innings, but gave up 3 monster homeruns. Ike Davis clubbed a pair and Rod Barajas unloaded against him as well. The Mets were up 4-3 going into the 9th inning, so they brought in their closer, Fransisco Rodriguez. K-Rod is one of the premier closers in baseball. John Bowker came off the Giants bench and tied the game with a solo homerun. K-Rod blew the save which, due to his obnoxious personality, was highly amusing. After the big fly, Ike Davis made an unbelievable catch. He went flying into the dugout. I cannot express how awesome the catch was. After the Giants, ninth inning comeback, Rod Barajas hit a walkoff two run homerun. The stadium went wild. It was the most enthusiasm we had seen all trip. Just something to point out... we have been to 4 games,2 of which Rod Barajas has played in. He has hit 4 HRs.

Win-Fransisco Rodriguez (Blown Save)
1 IP, 3H, 1ER, 2K

Loss- Sergio Romo
.1IP, 1H, 1BB, 2ER

Citi Field
Food: 8
Seat: 9
Fans: 3
Overall Experience: 7

Even though the stadium was very loud after the walk off Homerun, I believe that it is partially due to the fact that there were just about as many Giants fans as Met fans. The food was very good. There was a Shake Shack and Sushi. It generally equals a win. We had outstanding seats. They were right in the front of the stands in left.

Other Notes
It was very cold. We also barely made it into the city. We made it onto our train with less than 1 minute to spare. I am guilty of that because I left the tickets in the house. Brilliant... eh? Ike Davis is really really cool. Like really really cool.