{"id":5610,"date":"2014-04-27T07:26:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T13:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=5610"},"modified":"2014-04-19T17:23:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T23:23:02","slug":"ballpark-tour-dodger-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/ballpark-tour-dodger-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballpark Tour: Dodger Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/dodgerstadium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5886\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/dodgerstadium.jpg\" alt=\"dodgerstadium\" width=\"694\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/dodgerstadium.jpg 694w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/dodgerstadium-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stadium Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Dodger Stadium<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Los Angeles<\/p>\n<p><strong>Home Team:<\/strong>\u00a0Dodgers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Years in Service:<\/strong>\u00a01962 \u2013 Present<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visits:<\/strong>\u00a01<\/p>\n<p>Following the 1957 season, the Dodgers fled Brooklyn and headed west to California, landing in Los Angeles. \u00a0The team played in the LA Coliseum while they built a new stadium at Chavez Ravine. \u00a0In 1962, 3 years after breaking ground, Dodger Stadium opened as the Reds topped the Dodgers in the season opener.<\/p>\n<p>The following year, the Dodgers won their first World Series in their new home. \u00a0Between 1962 and 1965, Sandy Koufax threw three no hitters at the stadium, including a perfect game against the Cubs. \u00a0Four home runs have been hit out of Dodger Stadium, two of which were hit by Pirate great Willie Stargell.<\/p>\n<p>Dodger Stadium is currently the third oldest park still in use, behind Fenway Park and Wrigley Field. \u00a0Two weeks ago, I made my first visit to the stadium to see the second home game of the 2014 slate, with the Dodgers taking on their long time rival Giants. \u00a0Thanks to traffic, I didn&#8217;t get to my seat until the 4th inning, by which point the Giants had secured a substantial lead. \u00a0I sprung for decent seats, which put me down on the lower level. \u00a0One odd thing about those lower sections were the aisles, which are so narrow that people could only go in one direction at a time. \u00a0I did also manage to score a fabled Dodger Dog, or at least the all beef version of it. \u00a0I hope to make it back some day for a repeat performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stadium Name:\u00a0Dodger Stadium Location:\u00a0Los Angeles Home Team:\u00a0Dodgers Years in Service:\u00a01962 \u2013 Present Visits:\u00a01 Following the 1957 season, the Dodgers fled Brooklyn and headed west to California, landing in Los Angeles. \u00a0The team played in the LA Coliseum while they built a new stadium at Chavez Ravine. \u00a0In 1962, 3 years after breaking ground, Dodger Stadium [&hellip;]<\/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":[120,4656,4644,116,1663,256,4653,112,53,4654,4655,595],"class_list":["post-5610","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-pirates","tag-reds","tag-sandy-koufax","tag-willie-stargell","tag-wrigley-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5891,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions\/5891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}