Giants vs. Dodgers: September 18, 1997

DODGER BEATER Johnson's magic moment came in '97 (San Francisco Chronicle)

Hard to believe it's been 10 years since Brian Johnson's out of the blue, line drive home run in the 12th inning that day to complete a two-game sweep of the Dodgers tying the teams for first place in the NL West. I hardly remember the details of that game or the game the night before!

That year, Leon got Wayland and I to buy a 17 game package. That was pretty crazy as we signed up for it well into the season and we were in a mad rush to use all the tickets before the end of the season. I got off work early for the September 17 night game and took a day off from work for the following day game. Those were good times.

It's hard to remember many details about the games, but the best part was just hanging out together and the camaraderie of loving baseball.

Some other things I remember:
* Freezing at the night games in the field level seats on the 1st base line.
* Enjoying the upper deck seats on the 3rd base line where there was no wind.
* Our Garlic "Rally" Fries!!
* Sitting in those seats and telling Leon to buy my company's stock when it went down to $5/share, it then shot up to ~$90 during the Internet stock bubble. It's back down to $6-7 now.
* Receiving an entire sheet of playoff tickets for that year as it looked like they were going to win the division.
* Giants won the division and go to the playoffs! The Florida Marlins swept them the 1st round. We were all bummed out that we had this huge sheet of tickets and only got to use one! I re-call the fog rolling in at that playoff game.