Los Angeles Dodgers vs Cincinnati Reds — Labor Day

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Summer ends here, on a holiday afternoon when the crowd is loose, the season is closing, and fifty-six thousand people decide to spend the last long weekend in the same place. The park sits above Chavez Ravine with the San Gabriels framing the outfield, and it is still one of the few places in this city where strangers genuinely talk to each other. Come early. Gates open two hours before first pitch, and batting practice is the best-kept part of the day: players accessible, the park quiet, the light across the infield different than it will be all night. The Dodger Dog has been a point of pride and argument since 1962. The third-base pavilion gets loud faster than anywhere else in the building. The crowd is Koreatown and East LA and the Valley and transplants from everywhere, held together by the fact that people who love this team really love it. Bring the person who taught you the game.