Minute Maid Park in Houston is a beautiful and distinctive stadium in downtown Houston. Easy to get around, plenty of parking. The stadium doesn’t look like a stadium except for the numerous, bright lights. It’s gorgeous inside as well. Wide aisles, comfortable seats, lots of food choices. Two distinctive features …. The train that runs along the left field wall and an office building past left field that allows rooftop viewing of the ball game (and there were about 100 people watching this game from there). Oh, and they’ve put up a sign on the office building showing the build is 422 ft from home plate. Very cool.
They had a giveaway at this game. We are now the proud owners of 2 Astros stadium blankets
It was an absolutely gorgeous night. A beautiful sky; temps in the 70s at game time. The game was a homer fest. The Marlins out-homered the Astros 6 to 2 and won the game 10 – 6. Roy Oswalt, the Astros ace, gave up a career high of 4 home runs. My favorite was a Jorge Cantu (the ex-Red) shot that went out of the stadium over the left field wall. The left fielder never moved. The blankets came in handy as the temps dipped into the 50s by the 8th inning (I’d like to thank the Houston Astros for being so considerate).
Here’s a link to the box score:
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2008_04_11_flomlb_houmlb_1&mode=wrap
Here’s a link to our pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14772189@N03/
Now, for the all important hot dog rating: "8" -- lots of goodies, grilled peppers and onions. Slight downgrade because my bun fell apart and I had to eat the dog with my right hand and the veggies and bun with my left.
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