Attendance:
34,210
Game Time:
3:26
Weather: 86
degrees, partly cloudy
Wind: 1 mph
Umpires:
Home Plate - Paul Nauert, First Base - Dana DeMuth, Second Base - Mike
Estabrook, Third Base - Ed Hickox
Seventh-inning
stretch song: Twist & Shout – The Beatles
Section 416,
Row E, Seat 1 – exactly two rows behind my usual seat, seemed a little less
breezy and hence more stuffy
Highlights –
in the top of the first after Granderson reached third with no outs (double on
a ball Werth lost in the sun followed by a pitch that got past Ramos), Scherzer
kept the Mets off the scoreboard (medium fly to right by Wright, strikeouts of
Murphy and Cespedes) … Nats erased an early 3-0 deficit with a 5-run bottom of
the fourth, keyed by a Ramos grand slam
Other –
after putting the Nats in an early hole by allowing solo homers to Conforto,
Kelly Johnson, and Cespedes, Scherzer couldn’t hold the lead, giving up one run
each in the fifth and sixth … Nats bullpen imploded again in the seventh, as 4
relievers conspired to give up 3 runs … Nats failed to score off the Mets
bullpen over the final 5 innings after knocking out Niese
