Attendance: 25,097
Game Time: 3:25
Weather: 81 degrees, partly cloudy
Wind: 12 mph
Umpires: Home Plate - Angel Hernandez, First
Base - Will Little, Second Base - Ted Barrett, Third Base - Sean Barber
Seventh-inning stretch song: Hey Ya! –
Outkast
Section 108, Row Z, Seat 1 (plus 8 others
nearby)
Only one member of our party of 9 was
rooting for the Nats (I suspect selective recruiting) … longtime fan favorite
DC Washington nailed the National Anthem as usual … Phils jumped on Scherzer
for two quick runs on a 4-pitch walk to leadoff hitter Odubel Herrera followed
immediately by a home run by supersub Andres Blanco … with Phils leading 3-1,
Nats tied it off Vince Velasquez in the bottom of the fifth, sparked by a
one-out single by Scherzer and later RBI singles by Harper and Zimmerman … both
starters gave up 3 runs in 6 innings, although Velasquez was considerably more
efficient (84 pitches vs. 116) … Phils got him the lead and eventual win in the
top of the 7th on consecutive doubles by Blanco and Maikel Franco
(who tripped and fell on his way to second but stayed in the game) … with the
Nats down to their last out, Rendon singled off Phils closer Jeanmar Gomez,
bringing Harper to the plate with the game on the line … Gomez induced him to
ground out to third on the eighth pitch of a classic at-bat … one member of our
party nabbed a foul ball earlier, after a couple of odd ricochets ... no rain at all, despite an ominous forecast earlier
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