Milwaukee Brewers @ St. Louis Cardinals 4-15-08

Busch Stadium is a very nice park in downtown St. Louis. It gets extra points for a spectacular center field view of the St. Louis skyline and the Arch. According to the stadium thermometer, the temperatures were in the low 60s at gametime and dropped to the mid-50s by the end of the game. I think they lied. It was cold enough to wrap ourselves in the Astros blankets. I bought Club Level seats ($60), glass enclosed area behind the seats with premium concessions, so we could have a warm area to sit if we needed it. WE NEEDED IT!

The game was close till the 8th inning. The Cards won 6 – 1 using good base running and lots of singles to score their runs. They got surprisingly good pitching from Braden Looper. It was Jackie Robinson Day throughout the Major Leagues today, so all the Cardinals wore 42. It made it hard for us out-of-towners to tell who the players were even with a scorecard.

Here’s a link to the boxscore:
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2008_04_15_milmlb_slnmlb_1&mode=wrap

Here’s a link to the pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14772189@N03/

The hot dog rating – an “8” mine was a “7” and Nancy’s was a “9”. Lots of veggies, fresh bun, mustard in a gravy boat to spoon it on. Mine got downgraded 2 points because the hot dog was a bit on the cold side. Nancy went to a different vendor and heat wasn’t an issue.