Attendance: 28,730
Game Time: 3:36
Weather: 73 degrees, overcast
Wind: 2 mph
Umpires: Home Plate - John Tumpane, First
Base - Alan Porter, Second Base - Brian O'Nora, Third Base - Jeff Kellogg
Seventh-inning stretch song: Can’t Stop The
Feeling – Justin Timberlake
Highlights – Max won his 20th
game, ending his 5 innings by fanning his final 2 batters to strand the
go-ahead run at third base … he also drove in 4 runs (!) with 2 2-run singles …
Espinosa hit his 24th homer in the bottom of the fifth as the Nats
scored 3 to retake the lead … Solis recorded the final out in the top of the
eighth by fanning Jeff Francoeur after the Marlins got back within one run …
Spencer Kieboom made his major-league debut in the bottom of the frame, walking
and scoring a run … Turner (who also walked twice and stole his 33rd
base) and Revere had eighth-inning RBI singles to give Melancon some breathing
room for his 47th save
Other – Scherzer wasn’t at his best on the
mound, yielding 2-run homers to Miami rookies Destin Hood (Nats second-round
draft choice in 2008) and Tomas Telis, the first major league HR for each …
Nats outdid themselves on Fan Appreciation Day, as all 3 of us got autographs
from Mike Rizzo … didn’t win in the “jerseys off their backs” giveaway, but did
get some swag in the traditional toss-goodies-into-the-stands event after the
game (an XL “One Pursuit” T-shirt for me)
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