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| - I grew up in a family who loves baseball, starting with my grandfather's love of the Dodgers. I have been to many a Dodger game in LA but unlike my grandpa, I have been a lifelong fan of the Angels, having lived practically my entire life in Orange County. I have been to countless baseball games in Angel stadium in Anaheim, CA, but on a recent trip to AZ, was finally able to take in my first Spring Training game here at Tempe Diablo Stadium. I had an awesome time.
I purchased my tickets online and was pleased with the prices as I knew this stadium was not that large, and I am used to regular season Angel Stadium ticket prices. You can opt to buy seat tickets or lawn tickets which are general seating and cheaper. My two tickets were $50.00 total, and after fees, it ended up being $58.50 for the two seats. I have never been to another spring training stadium, but I was impressed with Tempe Diablo. The stadium seats about 10,000 people as opposed to the 45,000 or so that regular Angel stadium seats, so you can get a much better view of the field here at Diablo. OK, yes, it is older, and yes, it doesn't have super fancy stuff like other stadiums do, but who cares?! This is spring training, people! I could get all that I needed here to watch two MLB baseball teams play pre-season and it was cheaper than being a regular reason game. Parking here at the stadium was $5. We encountered a lot of the staff outside before we got in at the vendor booths and stadium workers who were super nice and helpful. I was excited when we entered the stadium. I love watching baseball games live. We were about 12 rows back from the field and we had a great view of the game.
Food wasn't necessarily cheap but it wasn't also as ridiculous as going to a regular season Angel game either. There were places to get food throughout the stadium as well as vendors roaming the seats selling beer, peanuts, snow cones, cotton candy, soda, etc. It was warm here on this day in Tempe but not too bad and we enjoyed beer, water, soda, a snow cone as well as a hot dog and brat. You can even get the ginormous batting cap full of nachos here like at regular Angel games. Staff throughout the stadium selling food were great, also.
Having now had a taste of my first live spring training game and knowing now that there are many stadiums throughout AZ that I can watch the Angels and other MLB teams play, I can't wait to come back again next year to take in more games during spring training season.
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