I got so carried away last week describing the food selections available at the Yankee Stadium Legends Club, that I forgot to mention the teams playing, and who won the game.

The Yankees played the Seattle Mariners. Masahiro Tanaka pitched for New York and Mike Montgomery started for the Mariners.

Seattle third basemen Kyle Seager hit home runs in his first two times at bat. I began to wonder if this was going to be one of those memorable games like two of the three games I saw in the old Yankee Stadium. I got to see Roger Clemens’ 3,000th strikeout and Don Mattingly’s 2,000th hit.

The record for home runs by one player in a game is four by a long list of players. Well, this was already a memorable evening for me, so it didn’t matter all that much when he was thrown out in his third at bat. He did drive in all of the Seattle runs. The game was tied 3-3 until Alex Rodriguez hit a solo home run in the seventh inning that proved to be the winning hit.

Besides the baseball game, we had plenty of other highlights. One was attending grandsons Brandon and Brody’s Tae Kwan Do class. They are both yellow belts. Although they didn’t do any punching through wood planks the day we attended, they had to show us their collection of wood pieces at home.

Another was eating those delicious Jersey tomatoes. I don’t know what it is other than the soil, I guess, that makes them taste so good. Tammy has a garden as many people do there. She also has zucchini and several other kinds of squash and peppers. She and the kids would pick what they needed each day.

That’s one way to get the kids to eat vegetables.

One day, we drove down to the shore to see how the beach cities of Lavellette, Ortley Beach and Seaside Heights have recovered from Hurricane Sandy. Diane spent a lot of her summers in this area when she was growing up.

Since we we’ve been married, Diane and I have taken several vacations in Lavellete. It looks like every house in the area had been rebuilt or renovated. All of the houses, apartment buildings and hotels had new siding on them. That was probably the thing I noticed most. Before the big storm everything looked weathered. Now it all looks new.

Grandson Hunter, now 16, went with us. We walked down the boardwalk in Seaside Heights. Again, everything has been rebuilt and looks brand new. One thing was the same. Hunter and I just had to have a slice of pizza from one of the stands on the boardwalk.

Daughter Dani (Hunter’s mom) is doing fine, although we didn’t see her very much. She has a new boyfriend (She brought him home for dinner one night.), who is a chef specializing in French cuisine at the country club where she works.

We ate well on this trip. We promised Hunter we would take him to his favorite diner for breakfast like he and I would do each Sunday at Denny’s when he lived with us in Fountain Hills.

Problem was, it was closed when we went there. It has a new owner and it is closed for remodeling.

We did find two others that had good food. They were the Ritz Diner in Essex County and the Milburn Diner in Milburn.

The last night we were there, I said the only thing I missed this trip was a pastrami sandwich from a good New York Deli.

Tammy said there was a good one in Livingston. The place was Irving’s Deli, about a 20-minute drive from her house in West Orange. The “Piled High Pastrami” was just what I was looking for.

It was a tasty end to a wonderful vacation.