7/28, 7:00am PT - We are in San Francisco four years to the day from our first BBT in 2009.     Same hotel, same ballpark, different opponent for the Giants. 

Game time is 1:05 pm.  We donned our BoSox gear and walked the short one mile to the ballpark.  Of all the parks we have seen over the past five years, AT&T is my personal favorite and top 5 of the boys too.  It is a magnificent facility, perfectly situated on the edge of the bay.  I saw many Giants and Niners games at Candlestick when I lived here in the late 80’s and it was a fairly miserable experience, due to its location (remote) and lack of baseball soul.  AT&T is the perfect facility for a near-perfect city.

Our seats are atop the left field wall in the first row.  Though we would theoretically have first shot at a home-run ball, we are so deep in left center field, nothing ever comes close, though Hunter Pence caught a few fly balls in front of us.  Tim Lincecum gave up a couple of homers, one to Travis Wood, the Cubs Pitcher.  Despite the winning run at the plate in the bottom of the 9th, the Giants fell to the Cubs 2-1.  Sunday marked the end of a long home stand for the Giants, so they offered a “kids run the bases” session after the game.  We queued up and were through the gate between McCovey Cove and the right field foul pole.  The boys circled the bases quickly and we exited the park through the front door.  After the game, we had a swim and reached consensus on dinner:  Mac and Cheese from room service.  We watched the last 45 minutes of Moneyball and hit the sack.  O.co and our 29th / 30 ballpark tomorrow.