June 21, 2015 – Nationals 9, Pirates 2 – Nationals Park

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Attendance: 40,015

Game Time: 2:34

Weather: 87 degrees, cloudy

Wind: 11 mph

Umpires: Home Plate - Sean Barber, First Base - Mark Wegner, Second Base - Mike Winters, Third Base - Mike Muchlinski

Seventh-inning stretch song: It’s Not Unusual – Tom Jones (excellent choice!)

 

Highlights – 2-run Harper homer, 3-run Escobar shot, double by Gio, all in a 9-run first inning off poor Charlie Morton, who was lifted before getting the third out and saw his ERA rise from an excellent 1.62 to a pedestrian 3.97 … 7 shutout innings by Gonzalez in an efficient 85 pitches … Pirates outfielder José Tabata, who ruined Scherzer’s perfect game bid Saturday by managing to get plunked by a pitch with two out in the ninth, was booed lustily by the sellout crowd every time he came to the plate

 

Other – inbound traffic worse every game; left home at 11:30, got to the bridge that replaced the old Humpback Bridge on the GW Parkway just before noon, took 25 minutes to make it the rest of the way