Los Angeles Dodgers vs Milwaukee Brewers

“Dodger Stadium sits above Chavez Ravine with the San Gabriel…”

Get there when the gates open, two hours early, before the seats fill. The park is nearly silent, batting practice is cracking off the bat and echoing around an empty bowl, and the light comes across the infield at an angle you will never see again once the crowd arrives.

That hour is the best-kept thing in Los Angeles sports. The rest is what you came for: the mountains sitting behind the outfield, a stadium that has held this city's attention since the sixties, and a crowd that is Koreatown and East LA and the Valley and every transplant who never let go of another team but shows up here anyway. The third-base pavilion gets loud first. Dodger Dogs remain an argument nobody has ever settled.

Chavez Ravine, and take the train from Union Station if you would rather skip the lot entirely.

Go with someone who has never been. Watch their face when they come up the ramp and the field opens.