July 5, 2015 – Nationals 3, Giants 1 – Nationals Park

http://m.nationals.mlb.com/news/article/134968464

 

Attendance: 33,157

Game Time: 3:02

Weather: 83 degrees, cloudy

Wind: 3 mph

Umpires: Home Plate - Phil Cuzzi, First Base - Gerry Davis, Second Base - Pat Hoberg, Third Base - Will Little

Seventh-inning stretch song: Higher Love – Steve Winwood

 

Highlights – 7 effective innings by Jordan Zimmermann (3 hits, 1 walk, 8 Ks, 100 pitches), with the only blemish being a fourth-inning homer by Brandon Crawford on a 3-0 pitch … 2^nd-inning RBI single by Michael A. Taylor after leadoff walks to Ramos and Espinosa … 6^th-inning solo homer by Ramos to restore the Nats’ lead … 8^th-inning insurance run on Harper double and Ramos single … another home save (and free Chick-Fil-A sandwich) courtesy of Drew Storen … periodic updates on the U.S. Women’s World Cup championship win over Japan, which elicited enthusiastic crowd chants of U-S-A

 

Other – beat the traffic by leaving Rockville 5 hours before game time (we wanted to arrive early enough to eat at Nando’s and get to the stadium in time for the Strasburg bobbleheads (no, they didn’t portray him clutching some body part on the way to the DL))