Downtown Ballpark: Getting Ready for a Sellout Crowd

conference championship! the chihuahuas take on fresno in a best of five series tonight in fresno. abc-seven will have complete coverage throughout the week… … as the chihuahuas look to become the top dogs in the pacific coast league. it’s exciting because el paso hasn’t seen a minor league championship in 21 years! welcome back to abc-seven at six, i’m estela casas. and i’m rick cabrera. the chihuahuas are already closing in on a sellout for friday’s game 3 of the series. last- minute preps are already underway. abc-7’s darren hunt is live tonight at southwest university park. darren. rick and estela, the chihuahuas didn’t know for sure they were going to make the playoffs until three days ago. and with up to 3 games possible this weekend, there’s a lot of work to do: “get alot of people here, 8,100 fans a game plus, they go through some food and beverage.” after more than 70 home games this season, the chihuahuas are now preparing for up to seven more through the pacific coast league playoffs. “friday’s going to be crammed, would imagine if we go to a game 4 here that will get crammed and certainly if we get to a deciding game 5 even though its on a sunday against the nfl that’s a big game if we get there.” “the team is hot and the beer i cold … i’m told more than 100 kegs of beer are being brought into southwest university park for this weekend’s games.” “we’ve got great partners they’re all local, they can deliver like that if we need help.” “got my tickets!” chihuahu fan frank prieto snagged some of the last seats available for friday’s game. “well it looks like they’re gonna have enough beer for you to drink.” “well i hope so … we’ll be here, ready to go.” “play ball!” dogs fan antoni prangner is pumped for this weekend’s games. “antonio by my calculations you’ve got some of the last antonio prangner is pumped for this weekend’s games. “antonio by my calculations you’ve got some of the last seats that are available.” “that is correct, tickets are flying, and when i saw the 12 oclock news today i said i better get over here.” “if we split in fresno, we know we’re playing here on saturday, but if you don’t, you don’t know that yet … you know what our staff is prepared for it, whichever way it falls, and we want to enjoy this ride with our fans have a good time and make a good run.” by the way, fresno still has thousands of tickets remaining for tonight and tomorrow’s game. rick ? darren, live downtown. thank you for that perspective. game one starts in less than two hours. you can listen to the game on 600 espn a-m radio. game two is tomorrow, also in fresno. then the series comes to el paso friday with game three at at 7:05. if needed, game four is scheduled for saturday at 7:05. and