July 19, 2015 – Dodgers 5, Nationals 0 – Nationals Park

http://m.nationals.mlb.com/news/article/137408936/zack-greinke-extends-scoreless-streak-in-win

 

Attendance: 40,293

Game Time: 3:14

Weather: 93 degrees, cloudy

Wind: 0 mph

Umpires: Home Plate - Bill Miller, First Base - Doug Eddings, Second Base - Jim Wolf, Third Base - Adrian Johnson

Seventh-inning stretch song: Cantina Theme (Star Wars)

 

Highlights – Scherzer had to work out of trouble a few times, but held the Dodgers to one run in 6 innings … the bullpen kept the game close until the 9^th inning … Thomas Jefferson looked fetching in his Princess Leia outfit … there will still R2-D2 Can Coolers left when we got to the game (around 12:25)

 

Other – the Nats allowed Zach Greinke to extend his remarkable scoreless-inning streak to 43⅔ innings, nicking him for only 3 singles and a walk during his 8 innings of work while fanning 11 times (after striking out 14 times against Kershaw on Saturday) … the since-demoted Blake Treinen allowed 5 hits and 4 runs in the top of the ninth while retiring only one batter … the dark side won the Presidents’ Race as well as the ball game … Metro worked well on the trip home, but on the way down we had to wait 15 minutes at Gallery Place before a Green Line train arrived … it was a bit on the warm side, despite the shade and occasional breeze in our seats

LP #7 Marshall Crenshaw (1982)

While Marshall Crenshaw went on to write and record plenty of other great songs during his career – the 2000 compilation The Best of Marshall Crenshaw: This Is Easy is well worth checking out – he never released a better or more consistent set of power-pop nuggets than on his 1982 debut album. Although he did creep into the Top 40 for the first and only time with “Someday, Someway” (which peaked at a modest #36), Crenshaw may be better known for playing Buddy Holly in the 1987 Richie Valens biopic La Bamba. The casting would have been apt even without the physical resemblance; Crenshaw’s tunes do sound something like Holly’s work, but they sound even more like tracks Holly probably would have recorded had he come of age in the 1980s rather than the 1950s. It also doesn’t seem like an accident that Crenshaw co-wrote “Til I Hear It From You”, which was one of the biggest hits for the Gin Blossoms.

 

“Someday, Someway” is my favorite song from the album, but they’re really all pretty great (and if you like that one, you’ll almost certainly like the rest). I was tempted to just write the names of the other songs on slips of paper and draw them out of a hat, which would have produced a list about as good as the one below.

 

Favorite tracks:

Someday, Someway

Rockin’ Around In N.Y.C.

Soldier Of Love

Mary Anne

There She Goes Again

She Can’t Dance