June 2, 2013

5/28/13 at Fenway Park

On Tuesday the 28th, we headed to Fenway Park to watch the Phillies play the Boston Red Sox.

On the way to the Arlington Station, we got lost so we were looking for someone to help me with directions. On the way, we passed the Red Sox mascot, Wally the Green Monster outside of a Lux, Bond & Green.

We took the Green Line from Arlington to Kenmore and as soon as we got to Kenmore, there was a sign pointing towards Fenway.

Upon exiting the station, the world famous Citgo sign was visable, meaning Fenway wasn’t too far away.

This was one of my first views of “America’s Most Beloved Ballpark”

We walked past the Ted Williams statue.

And the other statue, “Teammates”

For lunch, we headed to the Bleacher Bar and watched the Phillies pitchers warm up.

For lunch, I had the cheeseburger sliders.

After lunch, we went to gate C and waited for the gates to open.

The security worker gave me a “Welcome to Boston” gift consisting of a souveneir baseball and a pack of cards.

The gates open up at 5:40 but my Red Sox Nation membership allowed me to enter at 4:40, an hour early. They set the turnstiles up and I was ready to run.

I headed to right field.

The first fifteen minutes were uneventful and I got no baseballs. Somebody hit a long homerun 15 rows deep into the right field bleachers. Nobody knew where it was and a frantic search broke out. Ultimately, I was the first to find the baseball and I picked it up for baseball # 1.

I headed to center field…

and got nothing.

Then, I went to the Green Monster when the Phillies pitchers came out and…

and got nothing.

However, when I went to the right field corner, a Phillie hit one into the equiptment tunnel in center field. Humberto Quintero, a Phillies catcher went into the tunnel, picked up the ball and flipped it up to me after I asked for it in Spanish.