Mystery Photo #11
2006-09-08 15:40
Mystery Photo Number 11 comes via Corey and Alex Rubin. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to help figure out the who/when/where of the photo.
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1. J.J. Putz pitching against Cleveland at Safeco, for starters.
2. It's 3:25, so the game probably started around 1:00 pm, and the bases are loaded for the Indians. Putz has only thrown 7 pitches, so it's somewhat likely, although not a given, that he did not start the inning.
3. July 30, 2005, top of the 8th, Putz pitching to Jason Dubois with Casey Blake on first, Ben Broussard on second, Aaron Boone on 3rd.
Beltre playing third base, Sexson playing first, Morse playing shortstop, Olivo catching. Lance Barksdale is the HP umpire with Chris Guccione at third.
4. Dubois is about to strike out for the second out of the inning. Jeff Datz coaching at first and Joel Skinner at third.
5. No idea who the silhouetted guy in the ballcap on the lower left is, though.
6. I do believe that is the Jake, not Safeco. Why else would there be an Indian logo on the left field wall? Not to mention the infamous elevated left field wall at Jacobs Field. This would be the bottom of an inning.
7. Why would the Indians be wearing gray and the Mariners white if this was the Jake?
And why would there be a Pacificare ad next to the scoreboard? According to its website the company operates only in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, and Washington.
Compare it to this photo...
http://www.seatdata.com/images/venue_safeco_field/samples/sample.jpg
...and you can see that this park is clearly Safeco, and that the Indians logo is part of a scoreboard.
8. It's totally SafeCo. Les Schwab tires only operates in the Pacific Northwest. Also, I sit in seats a lot like these ones a lot of the time when I get to the ballpark; it's a familiar view to me.
9. It looks like the game was on Fox. There's a FSN logo next to all the Master Card ads on the 3rd baseline wall.
10. My bad...all the Mariners games are on FSN Northwest.
11. Judging by the flags in left field, the Red Sox are in 1st place in the AL East.
12. Could it be July 30th, 2005?
http://tinyurl.com/faund
13. Sorry for the 5th consecutive post, but I'm sure 12 is it.
Barksdale was the HP umpire on July 30th, 2005. Putz pitched. The Broussard, Blake, Boone combo works with all the accompanying stats. The Red Sox were 58-45, while the Yanks sat at 55-47 on that day.
14. I have nothing to add, as usual. You guys out-sleuth me every time.
I just want to submit the confusion apparent in 7 and 8 as evidence in my on-going rant entitled "all neo-retro ballparks look the same."