An Afternoon at the Reno Aces Game
Drove down the hill to Reno for a Sunday afternoon Aces game at Greater Nevada Field. May 7, and the clouds coming over the Sierra kept threatening something without ever delivering it — half the crowd stayed in sweatshirts and jackets the whole time.
Before first pitch a school band lined up out by the outfield wall, dozens of kids in black shirts with their instruments, the mascot lurking at the end of the row. Grounds crew was still watering down the infield when we found our seats behind the net.
The Aces were in their red home uniforms and the stands never got more than half full, which is fine by me — plenty of room to spread out along the first base side. The suites up top had their windows open and the flags on the roof were snapping around most of the game.
On the way out we passed the giant inflatable Archie bounce house, kids ducking in and out of the gap between his enormous striped legs, parents standing around in a loose ring waiting their turn to pull somebody back out.
