San Francisco Giants @ Colorado Rockies (1)

My flight arrived on time in Denver and I had lunch at the airport, as it was still quite early (before midday) and I didn't want to arrive too soon at the hotel.  The Supershuttle here only cost $40 for a return trip, and yet it takes longer than the Kansas City ride did that cost $138!  From looking at the prices, I suspect now that it might have been cheaper to have SuperShuttle take me to a downtown KC hotel and then had a taxi for the remaining few miles out to my real hotel.

This year, I'm just on a normal floor of the hotel rather than the concierge level.  It's got everything I've come to expect: large HD TV, large bed, quite a nice view, expensive Internet access and expensive breakfast!  After a quick dinner, I made my way up to Coors Field for the first of the 4-game series between the Giants & the Rockies.  I had a "paperless ticket".  This means you go to one specific entrance gate and the attendant swipes your credit card through the reader, which then issues you a (paper!) receipt confirming your seat number.  It tooks several swipes to read my card, but the lady said that was normal.  Just in case of difficulties, I'm going to continue to take the receipts that I printed out at home as proof of purchase to the other games.

It had rained whilst I was at dinner, so the seats were a little wet and I couldn't see the usher around so wiped it off myself.  Since I had just had dinner, I didn't order any food.  It was a good view from the club level and lots of foul balls came close to my section, but none to me.

The Giants started quickly in this one.  You know you're doing well when you're the number 6 batter (Brandon Belt) and you make 2 of the first 6 outs of the game.  2 runs in the first, 3 in the second and whenever Colorado inched back into it, San Francisco added on some more runs.  Even our pitcher, Ryan Vogelsong got a hit and scored a run.  It was only the 6th inning when Pablo Sandoval hit a triple to complete his cycle (single, double, triple, home run) - the first one I've ever seen, and not the likeliest of candidates to get one given his "athleticism" - it was only his second triple of the season.

There has been a bout of unseasonably cool weather stretching from the Rockies across the mid-West recently, and I was quite cold by the end of the game at around 9.30pm.  However, tonight's forecast is for it to be much warmer, although with a risk of brief showers again.

P.S. The Royals clobbered the White Sox tonight - so that's three big wins in a row!