As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Friday, August 28, 2015

August 27, 2015 – Nationals 4, Padres 2 – Nationals Park


 
Attendance: 28,908
Game Time: 3:01
Weather: 79 degrees, partly cloudy
Wind: 6 mph
Umpires: Home Plate - Hunter Wendelstedt, First Base - Marvin Hudson, Second Base - David Rackley, Third Base - Bob Davidson
Seventh-inning stretch song: Uptown Funk – Mark Ronson f/ Bruno Mars
 
Highlights – just when we had given up on any 400-level love, everybody in our section (416) won free buffet tickets from Maryland Live Casino … another excellent start for Joe Ross, who in 6 innings allowed just 1 (unearned) run and 1 (questionable) hit, while walking 2 and fanning 7 … Nats started off the bottom of the fifth by loading the bases with nobody out, then grabbed the lead by scoring two runs … Werth and Zimmerman added solo blasts in the sixth and seventh … great play by Rendon at 3B to save a run and end the top of the seventh … bullpen held the lead for the final three frames, with Pap converting a rare save opportunity … spent most of the game socializing with our “pet calendar” friends … was bold enough to drive down and back on a weekday (with navigational help), with both trips and the parking being blessedly uneventful
 
Other – Escobar left the game after getting hit on the wrist, and Taylor departed after running into the outfield wall … with Span unavailable (and later placed back on the DL), Nats were forced to use Fister as a pinch-hitter in the seventh, and finish the game with a defensive alignment that included Espinosa in LF

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