San Diego Padres @ San Francisco Giants (game 3)

The final game of the series and I had a seat that was slightly off to the 3rd base side this time.

As it is Sunday, it was an afternoon game.  Mike Leake, recently acquired from the Reds (who were arriving to start a series the next day, so he missed pitching against his old team!)   Unfortunately, he gave up 3 runs over the course of the first two innings, but then, helped himself in the bottom of the 2nd, by hitting a 3-run HR to put San Francisco back into the lead for good, as San Diego never scored another run and the Giants piled on a total of 10.

After the game, I returned to my hotel on this cable car.  It turned out to be by far the most reliable way of getting back to my hotel from the ballpark, as the end of the Powell-Hyde line is just a very short walk away from my hotel.

The cable car takes about 20-30 minutes to cross the city - usually you have to spend longer than that queueing for a ride, but the queues have been mostly absent this week.  The $7 cost per person per trip must put some people off, but if you have a MUNI passport (1-, 3- or 7-day pass), you can ride as many times as you want, and it's not all that expensive.