The Karbach skyporch has rocking chairs and looks like a great nosebleed spot to watch a game from - you’re staring right down the left field foul line toward home plate. ![]() Late in the game, we left our seats and walked and took the escalators up to the Karbach Brewery, which sits above the left field foul pole, where we enjoyed a Blonde pull from the Houston-based brewery after having found only Bud Lite and Michelob Ultra near our seats earlier in the game. The new ballpark also makes it a lot easier to buy cocktails other than frozen margaritas, with bars in the breezeways. I helped myself to two Rattler sausages, one of my daughter’s chicken tenders, a cup of fries, and, finally, a brisket sandwich. We did shy from the two-foot long “Boomstick” dog, which you can cover with toppings like cheese, jalapeños and chili, because that looked like it might kill us. The menu’s not adventurous: burgers, dogs, sausages, chicken tenders, chopped brisket sandwiches, pizza, fries, nachos, popcorn, Blue Bell, and snacks. But it’s a new ballpark, so we took the opportunity in the middle of the pitchers’ duel to walk around a bit. A limited number of concessions were open, and most types of the standard ballpark fare were available, even if we had to walk a bit to get to it. Masks were required except if you were “actively” eating or drinking, and fans generally seemed to comply. The field plays longer than the old ballpark, which means you’re a bit farther from the action If you’re sitting in the outfield.īaseball allowed in few fans, sold tickets in groups of four, spread the pods apart for social distancing, and strapped unused folding seats in their upright position and used yellow caution tape to rope off unused sections of seats closest to the field, to make sure nobody could switch seats. I had bet before the game the Dodgers’ lefthanded outfielder Cody Bellinger might be the first to put a ball there. Our party of four sat in the outfield section 132, 11th row in right center field, above the home team bullpen and one section over from where the Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman parked the first playoff home run in Globe Life’s history. Love great baseball talk at a baseball game. ![]() We were surrounded all night long by intelligent baseball conversation about the two teams and the game underway, which doesn’t necessarily happen at a typical Rangers game. “OK, the Braves are ahead by four points,” she said. Getting into and out of the old park was not easy, which means getting into and out of the new one also will not be easy - which my 20-year-old daughter sensed, as she asked if we could leave after the Braves went up 5-1. Globe Life sits just to the south of the former Rangers ballpark. With the temps no warmer than the low-80s on Monday, the roof for Monday’s game was open. Personally, I’d rather be able to take a train from Fort Worth right into the heart of the Arlington entertainment district, hop off, attend the game, hop on, and go home. Globe Life has a retractable roof, which is closed for summer games, allowing air conditioning, which the Rangers are betting will drive attendance. “It’s Indigenous Peoples' Day,” she said. One note: My wife, a lifelong Cubs fan, did not appreciate the Tomahawk Chop and didn’t come off of that Monday night. Rangers fans should come up with something like it. Baseball admitted only 11,500 fans into Globe Life for the game, and a lot of those wore Dodger blue. And after the Braves beat the Dodgers 5-1, scoring four runs in the final inning to break a tie, the “Tomahawk Chop” - the controversial Braves fan chant - echoed through the breezeways of Globe Life. It was the Braves at the Dodgers, with Los Angeles being introduced as the home team on the Texas Rangers’ field. But paying fans returned to Arlington for the first time this season Monday night, as did playoff baseball, which returned for the first time in several years, and the ballpark came alive. First impression of the new Globe Life Field in Arlington after Monday night’s Game 1 of Major League Baseball’s National League Championship Series between the Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Dodgers: This place is a lot more interesting in person than on television.įrom behind the pitcher toward home plate, television broadcasts frame a shot that shows empty, cave-like, ground-level field suites populated by this season’s ubiquitous cardboard cutouts of fans.
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