Planning a trip out west for baseball this summer. I often like sitting in the bleachers at ballparks, it’s one of the best areas in nearby Angels Stadium. Don’t quite see the vibe of bleacher seats at Dodger Stadium watching online.
Only been there once. The Saga:
Not at all a baseball fan, but got talked into going with some buddies from “The House”. Didn’t realize till on the way there that nobody had tickets. Long story short, got scalper tics in the ‘Family Section’ (no beer).
Game went into extra innings, seemed to last forever. Seemed like the longest night of my life.
I don’t even know what you mean by ‘bleachers’. It’s a stadium. All kinda uniform seating, innit? Except, for you know, where the beer isn’t?
I’ve sat just about everywhere at Dodger Stadium. I far prefer the top deck to the outfield bleachers. Full view of the game, easy access to concessions, less rowdy. Granted, you are not going to come home with a caught ball from there, but they are the best cheap(er) seats in the house, IMO. Pro-tip - the front row offers the best view of the game. The back row offers the easiest access to food and bathrooms, and gives you some shelter from the sun.
One never knows.
In 1999 I and my then-girlfriend brought my grandmother and her best friend to a Blue Jays game. they were huge Jays fans but had never seen a professional baseball games before, so it was a great gift to them. We were seated in the upper deck behind home plate, and as anyone who’s been to the Skydome knows, the upper deck there is very upper. My grandmother asked if we might have to dodge a ball, and I scoffed and said that was very unlikely indeed.
Two innings or so later, a foul ball was propelled directly at my grandma’s friend’s face at a velocity more than sufficient to kill or seriously injure the nice old lady. I managed to get my hand on it and deflect it away with inches and milliseconds to spare. She didn’t even have time to register what was happening until after the ball was safely knocked away and my heart was going about four hundred BPM.
Keep your heads up, folks!
You are, of course, correct. I should have said “very unlikely” instead. I’m sure a few balls have found their way up there over the years.
This brings up the question, what do you consider the bleachers? Is it any seat in the outfield? Is it different depending on the stadium? In Yankee stadium it’s not all the outfield seats. It’s specifically the sections that have benches with no seat back.
The problem with bleachers is no lumbar support. I’m not sure my bad spine could take that for 3 hours.
I’ve always considered bleachers to specifically be bench seating. Hadn’t even considered any old outfield seat (even a chair) could be considered a bleacher seat
Growing up going to the old Tiger Stadium, the bleachers were the cheap seats, all benches, where the rowdy drunks sat and threw a beach ball around all game (or until an usher confiscated it and got loudly booed).
A lot of parks don’t even have bench seating anymore.
30-year-old Astros minor league journeyman Ronel Blanco just no-hit the Toronto Blue Jays.
He walked the very first batter of the game, then retired 26 men in a row. Then he walked the same guy again (George Springer) but got Guerrero Jr. to end it.
Proposed new nicknames:
No-No Ronel
Blanco the Blanko
That’s how it is in Yankee Stadium. There are outfield seats that are regular seats but the bleachers are benches with no backs. Only section 203 qualifies as the Bleacher Creatures.
It’s my understanding that bleacher seats are uncovered seats - that is seats with no roof above them. They are called BLEACHers because they’ve been bleached by the sun.
In the stadiums I’ve been to that would be the majority of seats. Even the really expensive ones. That may have been the origin of the word but it isn’t that way now.