{"id":21828,"date":"2024-11-23T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21828"},"modified":"2024-09-03T15:49:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T21:49:47","slug":"ballpark-tour-dodgers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/ballpark-tour-dodgers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballpark Tour: Dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>With the offseason well underway, we continue our tour of all of the different baseball stadiums I\u2019ve been to over the years. This week, we head to Chavez Ravine to take a look at the Los Angeles Dodgers, owners of the third oldest ballpark in the major leagues. So, without further ado, let\u2019s take a deeper look at my one game history with Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n

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Stadium Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Dodger Stadium<\/p>\n

Years in Service:<\/strong>\u00a01962 \u2013 Present<\/p>\n

Visits:<\/strong>\u00a01<\/p>\n

Following the 1957 season, the Dodgers fled Brooklyn and headed west to California, landing in Los Angeles. The team played in the LA Coliseum while they built a new stadium at Chavez Ravine. In 1962, three years after breaking ground, Dodger Stadium opened as the Reds topped the Dodgers in the season opener.<\/p>\n

The following year, the Dodgers won their first World Series in their new home. Between 1962 and 1965, Sandy Koufax threw three no hitters at the stadium, including a perfect game against the Cubs. Four home runs have been hit out of Dodger Stadium, two of which were hit by Pirate great Willie Stargell.<\/p>\n

Dodger Stadium is currently the third oldest park still in use, behind Fenway Park and Wrigley Field.\u00a0 I made my first visit to the stadium to see the second home game of the 2014 slate, with the Dodgers taking on their longtime rival Giants.\u00a0 Thanks to traffic, I didn\u2019t get to my seat until the 4th inning, by which point the Giants had secured a substantial lead. I sprung for decent seats, which put me down on the lower level. One odd thing about those lower sections were the aisles, which are so narrow that people could only go in one direction at a time. I did also manage to score a fabled Dodger Dog, or at least the all-beef version of it.\u00a0 I hope to make it back some day for a repeat performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the offseason well underway, we continue our tour of all of the different baseball stadiums I\u2019ve been to over the years. This week, we head to Chavez Ravine to take a look at the Los Angeles Dodgers, owners of the third oldest ballpark in the major leagues. So, without further ado, let\u2019s take a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[120,4656,4644,116,1663,256,4653,53,4654,4655,595],"class_list":["post-21828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cubs","tag-dodger-dog","tag-dodger-stadium","tag-dodgers","tag-fenway-park","tag-giants","tag-la-coliseum","tag-reds","tag-sandy-koufax","tag-willie-stargell","tag-wrigley-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21887,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21828\/revisions\/21887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}