For the first time since 2019, Stanford Night returns to Oracle Park. This Wednesday, students from the Farm will take the Caltrain up to 4th and King Street to watch the San Francisco Giants host the Los Angeles Dodgers. Although there was a Stanford-Cal rivalry night in 2021, a standalone Stanford Night hasn\u2019t happened since before the pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ticket packages are sold at a discount and come with a roped Giants-Stanford hat. Representing the Cardinal at Oracle Park is none other than Andrew Luck throwing out the first pitch and the Stanford women\u2019s soccer team delivering the \u201cPlay Ball\u201d call.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The crowd heading to the city Wednesday evening is split. Giants fans are faithful, die-hard Dodger fans are looking to see Shohei Ohtani on the mound, and plenty of students simply want a night out in baseball utopia.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI love going to Giants games. They\u2019re always such a fun delight during the spring,\u201d said Varun Madan \u201826, a Giants fan who heard of the event through an ad. \u201cI saw the Giants-Stanford hat and it looked pretty cool, so I wanted it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
On the other side of the rivalry, Dodgers fan Alana Berlin \u201929 is checking out Oracle Park for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve heard that it\u2019s super nice\u2026 I\u2019ve seen a lot of videos about fans in the boats, trying to catch the balls that go out, so I\u2019m really excited to see that,\u201d Berlin said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Resident Assistants in Donner, Cedro and other freshman dorms bought group tickets, pulling in students for a mid-week dorm trip.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Julissa Arevalo \u201929, a lifelong Dodgers fan, is going with her dorm. While her fellow Dodger fans couldn\u2019t make the trip due to midterms, she didn\u2019t hesitate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve literally been a Dodgers fan since I was born because my dad is a huge Dodgers fan. There\u2019s a picture of me straight out the womb and I\u2019m already wearing Dodgers gear,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Not everyone has a rooting interest. Julius Schmidt \u201829 is looking forward to the venue.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOracle Park is a really beautiful place, definitely one of the nicest sports venues I\u2019ve ever been to\u2026 it\u2019s always nice to see the sunset at the bay,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Schmidt\u2019s team allegiance is minimal \u2014 he owns a Giants hat, but admits his fandom doesn\u2019t extend much beyond that. Baseball, though, is his favorite sport.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For seniors relishing in the last few weeks of spring quarter together, Christina Cheng \u201826 rallied a group of friends together, convincing friends who don\u2019t follow baseball to come out on the appeal of witnessing Shohei Ohtani.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy entire family are big Dodgers fans, and I\u2019ve never actually seen the Dodgers live, so this is going be the first time I see the Dodgers live\u2026 I watched all of the World Series, that was the craziest baseball series I\u2019ve ever seen in my life, and I rewatch the clips every month, so I\u2019m really excited to get to see them live,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her roommate Riya Ranjan \u201826 is all in on the experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to do the 9-9-9 challenge,\u201d Ranjan said. \u201cNine hot dogs, nine beers and staying for nine innings\u2026 My bet on myself is that I\u2019m going to get seven hot dogs, three beers, and I\u2019ll be awake for seven innings.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Joining them is Keira Cornwell \u201826, attending her first Giants game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI like going to baseball with my friends because it\u2019s a social sport. You can get food and talk,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Whether they\u2019re diehards or just there for the hot dogs and company, Stanford students will have one of baseball\u2019s oldest rivalries and sixty degrees on the Bay as their backdrop on Wednesday night at Oracle Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time since 2019, Stanford Night returns to Oracle Park. This Wednesday, students from the Farm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[86031,86032,5,39,2138,162,86033,4,1792,3554,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,468,6167,86034],"class_list":{"0":"post-680188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-alana-berlin","9":"tag-andrew-luck","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-dodgers","12":"tag-fan","13":"tag-giants","14":"tag-julissa-arevalo","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-oracle-park","17":"tag-rivalry","18":"tag-san-francisco","19":"tag-san-francisco-giants","20":"tag-sanfrancisco","21":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","22":"tag-sf","23":"tag-sf-giants","24":"tag-sfgiants","25":"tag-shohei-ohtani","26":"tag-stanford","27":"tag-stanford-night"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116441316333457212","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}