Gary Dunaier: Unsevered page of tickets from 2015 New York Mets season ticket holders' ticket booklet includes tickets for Mets games of June 27 and 28 v. Cincinnati Reds (June 28 was Steven Matz' Major League Debut)
Gary Dunaier: Ticket to see the New York Mets v. Cincinnati Reds at Citi Field, June 27, 2015 - box office style ticket
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: looking over the neighboring Iron Triangle as seen from a moving Manhattan-bound #7 train (IMG_5807a)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: looking north over 126th Street as seen from a moving Manhattan-bound #7 train (IMG_5808a)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: program vendors making final preparations prior to the gates opening to the public (IMG_5812)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: my ticket has successfully scanned and I can now pass through the turnstiles (IMG_5813)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: lines of early arrivals, 20 minutes before the gates opened to the public, as seen from the Caesars Club (IMG_5816)
Gary Dunaier: The world beyond Citi Field, 06/27/15: Mets Plaza and the Arthur Ashe tennis stadium, as seen from the Caesars Club (IMG_5817)
Gary Dunaier: The world beyond Citi Field, 06/27/15: Arthur Ashe tennis stadium, as seen from the Caesars Club (IMG_5818)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: this being the Sabbath, the Kosher Grill on the Field Level was closed today (IMG_5819)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: Steven Matz, scheduled to make his Major League debut tomorrow, has a pre-game catch with Jacob deGrom (IMG_5821)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: Steven Matz, scheduled to make his Major League debut tomorrow, smiles during a pre-game catch with Jacob deGrom (IMG_5826)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: Steven Matz, scheduled to make his Major League debut tomorrow, has a pre-game catch with Jacob deGrom (IMG_5828)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: Steven Matz, scheduled to make his Major League debut tomorrow, is about to throw another one to Jacob deGrom during a pre-game catch (IMG_5831)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: as Steven Matz, scheduled to make his Major League debut tomorrow, throws to Jacob deGrom during a pre-game catch, the Mets hope Matz' performance will help fill the empty seats in left field (IMG_5839a)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: the Mets hope the performance of Steven Matz, scheduled to make his Major League debut tomorrow, will help fill the empty seats in left field (IMG_5850)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: Steven Matz, scheduled to make his Major League debut tomorrow, talks with Jacob deGrom (IMG_5854a)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: Jacob deGrom passes the "#VOTEMETS" sign on the right field wall (IMG_5859a)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: Steven Matz, scheduled to make his Major League debut tomorrow, signs autographs for the fans (IMG_5863)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: Steven Matz, scheduled to make his Major League debut tomorrow, attracts a crowd of fans who want his autograph (IMG_5864a)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: Steven Matz, scheduled to make his Major League debut tomorrow, poses for a "selfie" with a fan (IMG_5867)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: Steven Matz, scheduled to make his Major League debut tomorrow, tosses a cap he just autographed back to its owner behind the Mets' dugout (IMG_5874a)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: today's starting pitchers, as shown on the Citi Vision - Michael Lorenzen for Cincinnati, Matt Harvey for New York (IMG_5877)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: Matt Harvey's statistics as shown on the strikeout counter in the left field corner - yes, that's rain you see in the dark areas below the strikeout counter (IMG_5879a)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: the grounds crew men have to deal with heavy winds as they remove the Tarpaulin from the field (IMG_5881)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: some of the "closed captioning" is shown in upper and lower case letters, for example the highlights of last night's game (IMG_5882a)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: Pat LaFrieda's meatball hero stand can be seen clearly in this view from the last row of section 110 (IMG_5883a)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: the first pitch of the game - a 96mph fastball from New York's Matt Harvey to Cincinnati's Brandon Phillips for ball one (IMG_5889)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: in left field, Michael Cuddyer catches Todd Frazier's fly ball for the third out in the top of the 1st inning (IMG_5890a)
Gary Dunaier: Citi Field, 06/27/15: Michael Cuddyer lines out sharply to RF Jay Bruce for the third out in the bottom of the 1st inning (IMG_5893)