Come on, let's go. Rudy Ortega may
call it the best view in the stadium,
but his seat in section 61, row 29,
is the farthest from the field.
He bought his ticket this
morning for 14 bucks.
They just sell me the ticket.
They said we got 100 tickets left.
So my friend and I,
we just came here invited tickets.
Rudy's just one of the
64,889 people who packed into
the queue tonight with signs,
towels. And one major goal
to make a lot of noise.
Rudy may have the farthest seat from
home plate, but he definitely doesn't
have the worst seat in the house.
That honor belongs to Donnie Stablon.
Donnie supposed to be sitting
in section 20, row 18,
seat 18. Here's his view
of the game. You see the
guy band, so it's pretty much passed four.
I mean, it's pretty bad. Donnie
moved down a row for a better angle.
He's lucky there weren't many
open seats to move into.
Padres fans packed the queue, creating
a feeling few fans have ever felt before.
It's intense. It's an adrenaline rush.
It's awesome. Oh, it's wonderful.
It's great. We enjoy it. As
the game moved on, the crowd got louder.
And when Wally Joyner hit an eighth inning
home run to put the game out of reach.
The fans knew tonight they wouldn't
leave the queue feeling blue.
So they stood through the whole
9th inning and cheered on Trevor
Hoffman as he sat down the
Astros in order to seal the win,
kissing off the Astros for good.
Now bring on Atlanta from Qualcomm
Stadium. Steve Price, KFMB News 8.
If you don't think San
Diegans are excited
about the Padres.
Listen to this.
Sundays crowd of 64,898 at the Keo
cheered on the pods
from the first pitch to the last out.
I never experienced
anything like yesterday.
That was outstanding.
That was beautiful.
I mean mahaffie came in.
And went crazy.
I never been,
I never been to anything
except for Super Bowl.
But for your home team,
that's incredible.
Waving towels, holding signs,
banging noisemakers.
It was quite a workout. I
hurt my arm just cheering them on the
other day. So I know it means a lot.
It means a lot for us to just lift
everybody's spirits up in the community.
Now it's off to Atlanta for the
National League Championship series
and the fans can't stay away. About
50 of them came by Qualcomm Stadium
just to watch the team load onto their.
Airport bound buses. Vonnie
for sporchi. Trevor.
I'm still waiting to see Kevin Brown.
He's my favorite.
I'm your number one fan.
Brown finally showed up,
but he knows there's
still a lot of work to do.
And let's hope we give him reason to be here.
Screaming to you on the end of October.
The rowdy crowd is pumped all the Padres up,
especially Jim Leyritz,
who's hit a home run in San
Diego's last three games. You
know, it's one of those things I
don't want to wake up, you know?
I like I told my wife last night.
I said I don't want to wake up yet.
It's one of those things.
Hopefully it'll continue
and we'll see what happens.
The Padres headed to Atlanta this
morning in two chartered 720 sevens.
They'll get the night off,
then take batting practice tomorrow.
But right now they're still flying
high from the biggest and noisiest
baseball crowd San Diego has ever seen.
The line started forming this
morning at 5:45 Holiday today for me.
I work for a mortgage company so
time to come down and see the Padres
play and hopefully take it today.
It might have been chilly this morning
but right now the Padres are red hot
so fans didn't mind lining up by the
hundreds to buy tickets to seats.
Way out of the strike
zone. We don't care. There are
no crummy seats for the Padres.
We wanna be there when they win this
and they go, we want to be there.
The Padres started the day
with 13,000 seats for sale.
Plaza section, go Padres.
But they didn't all go to Padres fans.
I believe in the Braves completely
after winning last night's game.
The Braves have some pods fans a bit
concerned, but they're trying to stay
optimistic by showing their. True colors.
Saturday was a great game.
It was unbelievable. Yesterday.
It was. It happens, you know?
I mean, it's the Braves.
You can't, you can't figure you can
win them all against the Braves,
you know? So it happens.
But they're gonna do it today.
Trevor Hoffman's in the bullpen.
He's gonna come out.
Andy Ashby's on the mound.
We're going to do it.
Tim's one of the few in this line
who went to the games this weekend.
But the Padres have been a hit on TV,
showing the excitement inside the
queue that can keep fans away.
We were hosting a dinner party.
You know we had the game on
and you know we had everybody
there so we couldn't quite.
We're gonna do both things at once.
So with all these pods fans the queue
sure to be a jungle again tonight
for what they hope will be the Braves
farewell party at Qualcomm Stadium.
Steve Price, KFMB News 8.