Giants 13, Arizona Diamondbacks 7.

       Baseball during a pandemic.   Last season, 2020, was an anomaly:  cancelled contests, missing players, infected team members, and players who just opted out for the year.   This year is beginning to look like the old baseball we know and love.  So, the Mayor bought some tickets, managed to get some good seats in the lower club section behind the Giants dugout: close enough to read the lips of the players as they came and went to and from the diamond.

      Briefly, the top of the 1st inning did not look good for the homies: Dbacks, 2, Gigantes 0.  And then the locals came to bat.  4 runs later, the Giants took the lead.   This reminded folks of what happened the night before when the Giants were behind early, and didn't look like they would overcome large deficits; but they did by the 8th inning.  Anyway, the team found their own footing at the plate and began pounding the opposing pitchers whose record speaks for itself: they've lost the last 21 road games in a row.  The game then advanced as Giant after Giant swung for the fences: home runs, triples, interspersed with singles and walks.  At once it seemed like a merry-go-round: stolen bases, steals, rbi's at every turn.  Fans were getting their monies worth, all 11,001 of them.

      We had to provide evidence of vaccination to sit where we did: a shot card(CDC) or test results evidence.  This insured the comfort of all in the section who were without a mask, sitting right next to a stranger.  We sat among amiable folks, one of whom professed to be a Skyline college instructor/coach who attended with his lady friend, a former student!  The crowd buzz was subdued do to the paucity of numbers, the stadium being less than 25% capacity.  It seemed odd to view the wide array of empty seats that normally would be filled.  Want a hotdog?  No lines.  Need to use the bathroom?  No lines there either.   Reminds one of the old days when the Giants couldn't win a game and supportive fans were few and far between.   But those days are only a distant memory for life long Giant fans, those who were here in '57 and '58 who watched the game at the old Seals stadium at 16th & Bryant Sts.  But, I digress.

     After 7 innings, fans began the march to the exits, even after the Dbacks added 5 runs.  The score did not change, and the locals went home happy with a 13-7 outcome.