Tag Archives: U.S. Cellular Field

Home Run Fireworks

By Kristopher Kettner | Published 1 April 2013

Today Major League Baseball begins yet another season of play.

While I wouldn’t mind it if the sport picked up the pace of play a bit, I do appreciate the “boys of summer” representing just that: Summer.

About the time of year when all of us get “Cabin Fever,” Spring Training begins and before you know it, it is opening day. Summer, at that point, is just around the corner. Sure, it is still cold through mid-June, but even then, we’re getting a hearty dose of hot, sunshine-filled days.

With the picture above, I remember it being a hot day at U.S. Cellular Field as I purchased a ticket and wandered around the ballpark with my camera. About the time the sun got low in the sky, I made my way to the upper deck because I was hoping for a picture like the one above. I remember the wind was blowing “in” really strong and thinking no one was going to hit a home run.

For whatever reason, the home run balls were flying that night, and as a result so where the fireworks. When A. J. Pierzynski launched a ball that just cleared the right-field wall, I started shooting as the fireworks launched high into the sky. At the time I was afraid the sky was too bight to achieve the picture I wanted, but once I got home I realized it was pretty close to what I was going for.

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Pierzynski Puts the Sox on Top

By Kristopher Kettner | Published 30 May 2012

For several years I’ve been covering the Chicago White Sox. I’ve worked my share of day games and night games at U.S. Cellular Field (or as I still call it: Comiskey), but always for somebody else. Last week, for something a little bit different, I bought a ticket and went as a fan.

Well, I didn’t really keep score and take in the game like a true fan, but I dragged my camera along and took a number of pictures I’ve wanted to take for quite some time.

It was a beautiful early summer evening and a breezy 81°F (27°C). The wind was howling in from right field so I didn’t think there would be many home runs. Apparently I was wrong.

Very, very wrong.

Eight home runs were hit during the game (including a grand slam by Alejandro De Aza), but A. J. Pierzynski got things going in the second inning with a solo shot to right field. The White Sox would beat the Minnesota Twins 11 to 8 and I got a lot of pictures I was really happy with.

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Day Game U.S. Cellular Field

By Kristopher Kettner | Published 13 April 2012

Since last week on the day of the Cubs home opener I posted an image from Wrigley Field, today I’ll post an image of U.S. Cellular Field, or if you loathe the name like me, Comiskey.

This picture was difficult to get.  When I first discovered the location, it was an empty plot of land and completely unused and ignored.  During the White Sox offseason from 2010 to 2011 the City of Chicago planted a few trees and numerous small bushes.  What was originally a space easy to maneuver to get the shot I was looking for turned into a bunch of grumbling and twisting around trees.

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Third Base

By Kristopher Kettner | Published 19 September 2011

There isn’t much to this picture.  It’s the third base at Chicago’s U.S. Cellular Field, home of the Chicago White Sox.

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Black and White Sox

By Kristopher Kettner | Published 30 August 2011

I really like pictures of empty stadiums because I think so often we see them full of people (except the Florida Marlins in the early 2000s, of course).  It’s nice to see such a large place in such a different situation.

This is, obviously, U.S. Cellular Field, home of the Chicago White Sox, and, for three games in 2004 the Florida Marlins.

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