Thursday 13: What I'll Remember about Tonight's Game

I visited Safeco Field for the first time this year to see the Yankees game. And here's what struck me...

1. However uncomfortable bleacher seats are, the view from center was awesome.
2. C.C. throwing a mid-90s fastball well into the eighth inning.
3. Alas, Seattle fans didn't boo A-Rod, but only because he wasn't playing.
4. Hideki Matsui's 2 homeruns to right. I'll come back to one of them in a moment.
5. Derek Jeter's HR blast to left.
6. Fireworks at Safeco for Wilson the SS after his HR. Note to Safeconians... Fireworks with the roof closed causes fits of coughing and eye irritations for anyone within the stands. Does anyone else light fireworks indoors?
7. Every person in the Yanks' initial lineup was on base at least once. Even Melky.
8. I attended with 2 brothers with whom I play softball. We call them the brothers Grimm.
9. The wafting smell of garlic. How much garlic do they put on those fries?
10. The 2 fathers with their kids in front of us (3 girls and a boy). All of them were wearing Yankees hats.
11. Watching the Yanks finish it off in the 9th and waiting for New York, New York. It didn't come, but I'll tell ya that there were certainly enough Yankees fans in the house to give a rousing rendition.
12. 11-1
13. A Mariners fan ensuring that Matsui's second HR was, in fact, a HR by sticking his glove out over Ichiro's perfectly timed reach to snag said homer from behind the wall. It would have been one of the best catches I'd ever seen. Instead, it's just another HR that barely cleared the wall.