It was a beautiful day for a ballgame. We took a car service to Staten Island and saw parts of the island for the first time: slums and mansions not too far away from each other. When we had been to the Richmond County Bank Ballpark on July 25 we had been somewhat distracted by our restless daughter (see my post of Jul 25) and this time Susan and I had an unusual opportunity to spend time together, just the two of us, with our son in Baltimore and our daughter at camp. And it was a terrific game, with Yankee pitcher Juan De Paul pitching six no-hit innings and Andy Diaz scoring the only run of the game in the 8th inning on a wild pitch, the Yankees winning 1-0. Diaz also had an assist, throwing from centerfield to nail a runner at home who was trying to turn a fly ball into a sacrifice fly. I was keeping score and the game was wonderfully minimalist, producing a very neat scorecard.
We had beautiful seats in the shade (at our request) along the first-base side. The capacity of the stadium is 7,171 so all the seats are pretty good; there were 3,639 fans in attendance on Aug. 10, many of them well-behaved young campers for whom the 11 A.M. starting time had been designed and which allowed us plenty of time to get home and pick up our daughter from her camp in Bay Ridge. The sun shone, the fish-and-chips were fine, the elegant geometry of the game itself was as beautiful as at any major-league stadium, with a better view and a much lower price than at any major-league stadium: a wonderful way to spend a summer day.
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