Late summer trip

I spent a lot of time trying to organise my September trip, and finally managed to work things out so I can visit some places I've not been for a while, and whilst this is primarily a baseball trip, I've squeezed in another couple of sports too.

This year, I'm going to New York, Seattle, Denver, Santa Clara and San Francisco.

I'm starting in New York, where I'm seeing 2 games of the Miami Marlins series at the New York Mets.  I'm going to miss seeing Noah Syndergaard pitch, as he went last night, but I will see the big man pitch when Bartolo Colón goes on Wednesday.    I do have a ticket for Tuesday's game, but I'm going to attempt to sell it on via the official website, because Monday morning, I managed to pick up a ticket for the event going on on the other side of the subway tracks from Citi Field: the US Open tennis championships.  I have a ticket for the evening session tomorrow night.  This features Serena Williams up first against Ekaterina Makarova, followed by Andy Murray taking on Lukas Rosol.

Then it's on to Seattle to see the three game series between the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, who I visited in southern California earlier this year, against the Seattle Mariners.  It's been seven years since I last visited Seattle - I hope the building works around the stadium are finished now!

After that, it's down to Denver, which I've not been to for 5 years, surprisingly.  In the past, it's often a place I stop as a staging point between the east and west coasts.  I'm going to see the last two games of the series between the San Francisco Giants and the Colorado Rockies, before having a couple of day trips out into the mountains with Gray Line tours.

Then it's a shorter flight down to San José, where I'm staying, in order to catch the second game of the Monday Night Football double-header featuring the San Francisco 49ers hosting the newly-relocated Los Angeles Rams, formerly of St Louis.

After a quick train journey up to San Francisco, I'm ending my trip with three games at AT&T Park, seeing the Padres on Wednesday night, then the first two games of the 4 game series between the St Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants, the second of which is Star Trek night!