9/23/2011 10:31:07 PM
PHOENIX - The Arizona Diamondbacks clinched the National League West Division Championship here Friday night with a 3-1 victory over the defending World Series Champion San Francisco Giants. The game was played at Chase Field, roughly a 20-minute drive from my hotel. I was late getting back from Salt River Fields in Scottsdale and didn't have time to even try to get to the stadium, although I wasn't really planning on it anyway. I was content to sit down and write my final story of the day and watch the division-clincher on TV.
As it turned out, the hotel at which I'm staying - a very nice Embassy Suites - doesn't provide Fox Sports AZ, the channel that carries the D-backs' games. I could only think of going to Chicago and staying at a very nice hotel and finding out it doesn't offer WGN or Comcast Chicago. It just shouldn't happen that way.
Ah well, what do you do. I could have gone across the street to one of the many fine establishments within walking distance of my hotel and certainly would have been able to catch the game, but I was finishing up a story from the PG/EvoShield National Championship. And as you all can tell from my earlier posts on this trip, I'm all work and no play.
Former Perfect Game standout and D-back rookie Paul Goldschmidt had a two-run triple to lead the Snakes. Wish I could have seen it.