April 4, 2015 – Yankees 4, Nationals 3 (exhibition) – Nationals Park

http://m.nationals.mlb.com/news/article/116345110/chris-youngs-homer-for-yankees-negates-strong-start-by-nationals-doug-fister

 

Weather: 57 degrees, partly cloudy, 17 MPH wind left to right

Time: 2:46

Attendance: 36,998 (game was included in all season-ticket packages, not nearly that many bodies in the stands)

Section 416, Row N, Seat 20

 

Highlights – new Subway on M near Half Street finally open (and $6 footlongs all month!) … list of 10-year season ticket holders is posted on both lower level (beyond the Jammin Island stand in centerfield, just under the grandstand) and upper level (across from section 305) … A-Rod DHs and goes down swinging in all three plate appearances … Nats jump out to 3-0 lead in the first (singles by Taylor and Escobar, 4-pitch walk to Harper, Ryan Zimmerman sac fly, 2-run single by Ramos)

 

Other – seats in topmost row of the section (but with nice river of the river and beyond if you turn around) … windiest I’ve ever felt it at Nats Park … upper-level pretzel stand not open … Yanks come back with 2-run homers by Stephen Drew in the 5^th (off Fister) and by Chris Young (off Storen) in the 8^th for the victory … tree fell on the northbound GW Parkway just beyond route 123 after the game, so I went around the other way (and 295 was painfully slow)