On Friday, Chris and I headed all the way down to Coney Island from Washington Heights to check out Keyspan Park for the first time and watch the Staten Island Yankees take on the Cyclones. We had a very long trip on the train that took longer than it should have because of some annoying MTA antics, but enjoyed ourselves there.
As a lifelong Coney Island hater (it takes too long to get there from the Heights to make the trip worth it in any way normally) I was sort of expecting not to have any fun, but the park was very cute and minor league baseball always makes me happy apparently.
The game itself was no great shakes–Arodys Vizcaino started for Staten Island. He’s an 18 year old international signing with a lot of promise. I wasn’t really in a good position to really check him out as we had standing room tickets and roaming around, but other than a meltdown with two outs in the third he looked pretty good. NY-Penn League numbers should not really be taken to mean anything, but he struck out 7 in 4.1 innings so good for him. He’s worth keeping an eye on.
Also, Carmen Angelini did not make any errors so that was pretty exciting.
Without further ado, here are my pictures:
