My friend Patrick took me to a baseball game in Yokohama Stadium with his Japanese teacher and one of the volunteers from the YSHP called Minoru. I arrived at Kannai station at 4:15 and Patrick and his Japanese teacher were waiting there. A few minutes after I arrived Minoru came as well.
The game was from 5:00pm to around 8:45 pm.
This baseball game was the first ever baseball game I went to and even the first professional sports game I’ve been too.
We walked to the stadium and Patrick and the others bought some Yuzu Beer from a store. Yuzu is a round Asian fruit that’s a bit like a lemon. We got into the stadium and first went to our seats.
The stadium where the baseball game was held was in Yokohama. The home team was the Bay Stars and the away team was the Giants.
The seats we were sitting in were on the wing of the stadium which are the highest seats.
Inside the baseball stadium there were some people with tanks on their backs filled with beer and a hose attached to them. They were selling the beer to the people watching the game.
For dinner, l had Chinese fried rice and shumai, which are steamed dumplings. They were sołd at a shop in the stadium.
There were quite a lot of drunk people at the game, and after the game, on the trains.
On the train home there were so many people from the baseball game that it was hard to find a carriage with space.
The weather forecast said that it was going rain but it only rained just after the baseball game.
The game was a bit confusing because I don’t know much about baseball and l didn’t know who the members of the teams were.
One of my absolute favorite moments in my life was seeing a game in Yokohama. I also saw the Baystars take on the Giants back in 2019. Indeed I sat way up, in fact I didn’t have a seat it was like a standing platform. Others were also on this platform and one couple had a picnic blanket with snacks.. I was pretty jealous 🙂 I didn’t dare move the whole three hours I didn’t want to miss anything. (other than to sit down on the ground sometimes) I love baseball and know entirely too much about the game in the US and when I started visiting Japan a long time ago I started learning the teams and some of the players. I also find it cool to spot a North American or a Latin American playing for a Japanese team (and there are quite a few now). My favorite part of baseball is how for a long time very little happens. And then suddenly there is action and that action is because a player manages to successfully hit this small ball that is traveling at such a rapid velocity.. its incredible that humans can do this and do it so well. Oh and the coolest thing about Japanese baseball stadiums, everyone sings and there is a song for every player almost. The US does not have this. I loved getting high fives from all the people around me everytime the Baystars scored. They don’t even worry if Im a fan or not, they just assume I love this game and we’re all together.