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Dodger Stadium on a Weekend in Los Angeles

·Los Angeles, California·#travel#summer#baseball#los angeles#dodger-stadium
A baseball game in progress at a stadium, showing players, fans, scoreboards, and distant hills.

A weekend in Los Angeles, and the middle of it was a Dodgers–Padres game at Dodger Stadium with two friends, one of whom wore his San Diego cap into a park of 56,000 mostly blue seats and did not seem bothered.

Walker Buehler started for the Dodgers — the big board reminded everyone he'd struck out six against Washington on a hundred pitches the week before. We were up in the reserve level under the overhang, which meant shade for the first hour and a long view of Chavez Ravine: palm trees behind the outfield pavilions, hills going brown behind those. The place opened in 1962 and it wears it well enough; the yellow seats up top haven't changed.

By the middle innings the tower lights had come on even though the sky was still working through its clouds. Somebody a section over never stopped heckling the Padres' right fielder.

Three people, two wearing baseball caps, including a smiling man with glasses, sit in a stadium.Three people at a stadium, with two smiling at the camera, and more spectators in the background.A wide view of a crowded baseball stadium during a game, with players on the field and bright lights under a cloudy sky.A baseball game at Dodger Stadium featuring the field, many fans, scoreboards, and surrounding hills under a cloudy sky.

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