View from supposed worst seat in Astros' Minute Maid Park: 'Replace the pole with a bar for us'
The view from Section 104, row 3, seat 1 during batting practice before Game 1 of the Astros-Mariners American League Division Series Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022 at Minute Maid Park.on Tuesday afternoon. Row 3, seat 1, right on the edge of Minute Maid Park’s Crawford Boxes. He was so confident in his good deed, he told Ortega to be sure he texted him a picture from his seat when he got to the game.
When he made his way down the steps and saw where he'd be spending the next four hours, a bemused Ortega made sure that photo was on the way.“Oh man, I didn’t know the pole was going to be all in your grills.”The thing about section 104, row 3, seat 1 is it’s directly behind the giant yellow left-field foul pole. If you look straight ahead, you can’t see home plate, and the pitcher’s mound and entire infield is covered by the grate on the fair side of the pole.
“Even like this, I can barely see,” said Jose’s wife Sylvia Ortega, who graciously took the bad seat and leaned far to her right onto her husband’s shoulder, who had a bit better view in seat 2.worst seat in every Major League Baseball Stadium based off a number of factors, including view, distance from home plate and price. Section 104, row 3, seat 1, at a little more than 315 feet from home plate and priced at $135 for a playoff game was the site’s pick for Minute Maid Park. Although to be fair, every ballpark except Atlanta’s Truist Park and Pittsburgh’s PNC Park had seats deemed worse than the runt of the Crawford Boxes.
That news didn’t salve the wounds in section 104, which begins at row 3 for the first few seats because of the foul pole occupying space just behind the outfield wall.
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