CenturyLink Park
The field
I missed the day on which tickets to the Red Sox spring training games at JetBlue Park went on sale and those tickets go very quickly. So when I realized that I couldn’t get any JetBlue tickets I turned my attention to the CenturyLink Sports Complex, the spring training home of the Minnesota Twins. While I am most definitely not a big Minnesota Twins fan, they do play the Boston Red Sox quite a few times each spring as they both have spring training facilities in Fort Myers. I was able to get onto the Twins ticket web site the day tickets went on sale and scored two games between the Twins and the Red Sox.
The first one was on March 11 which is early in spring training. That means you see a lot of minor league players trying very hard to make it to the “bigs”. So I didn’t expect to see the Red Sox opening day lineup. But, worse, this was a “split squad” game – the Red Sox played a game at JetBlue and a game at CenturyLink on the same day. So there was probably one “starting lineup” player on the Red Sox squad – catcher Christian Vasquez. The Twins showed up with a full squad, including Joe Mauer, and crushed the Red Sox 13-0. So not a great baseball game for a Red Sox fan.
But I got my first view of CenturyLink Park. It is smaller than JetBlue, but very nice. It has a quaint, turn-of-the-century look about it. And it was a bright, sunny day. So I had a good time watching the Red Sox getting drubbed.