Umpires:
HP: James Hoye. 1B: Bob Davidson. 2B: John Tumpane. 3B: Bill Welke.
Weather:
87 degrees, overcast.
Wind: 3
mph, Out to RF.
T: 2:51.
Att:
32,311.
Well, if you
have to be in a rut, a 10-game winning streak with 5 walk-off wins in the last
6 games isn’t a bad rut to be in. The latter hasn’t happened since July of
1986, when the Astros somehow managed 5 walk-off victories in a row.
The
starting pitching was extremely effective on both sides. (Stop me if you’ve
heard this before.) Gio Gonzalez, who was shaky in his previous outing on
Saturday, matched Tanner Roark’s effort the night before with seven scoreless
and mostly drama-free innings.
Meanwhile,
the Nats collected 8 hits and 6 walks (one of which was intentional) off
Arizona starter Wade Miley in his 6.2 innings of work, but somehow managed not
to score a single run, wasting opportunity after opportunity. As destiny would
have it, the game remained scoreless until the bottom of the ninth, when Denard
Span singled with one out, stole second base, and scored when Diamondbacks
third baseman Jordan Pacheco threw away Anthony Rendon’s ground ball.
This 4:05
game was not in our regular plan, so Terry and I were in our “bobblehead
section” (107, EE, 12-13). We headed down early, had a leisurely lunch at Nando’s,
and then walked down to the Park. We found our old friends (and former
section-mates) the Schroeders waiting in line for the Ian Desmond bobbleheads,
so spent some time socializing with them before the game began. Weather.com had
claimed that there wouldn’t be any rain before 7pm, but it actually started
around 5:00, ranging from light to somewhat less light. It never got heavy
enough to stop the game, but we got tired enough of it by the fifth inning or
so that we decided to find some unoccupied covered seats in our usual
upper-level section. We still had some Washington Post coupons to use up, so
filled up on $1 ice cream bars and souvenir sodas (and refills of same).
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