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.)

Saturday, October 8, 2016

October 7, 2016 (NLDS Game 1) – Dodgers 4, Nationals 3 – Nationals Park


 
Attendance: 43,915
Game Time: 3:46
Weather: 72 degrees, partly cloudy
Wind: 7 mph
Umpires: Home Plate - Dan Bellino, First Base - Chris Guccione, Second Base - Ron Kulpa, Third Base - Tom Hallion, Left Field - Jeff Kellogg, Right Field - Manny Gonzalez
Seventh-inning stretch song: You Shook Me All Night Long – AC/DC
 
Section 305, Row E, Seats 21-23 (our seats for all home NL playoff games) – same level as usual but 3 sections away (about halfway down the left-field line) … only 2 seats away from the aisle, making the relocation a reasonably good trade-off
 
Highlights – injured catcher Wilson Ramos threw out the first pitch, as Livan Hernandez was unable to make it up from Florida due to Hurricane Matthew … after falling into an early 4-0 hole against LA ace Clayton Kershaw, the Nats got a 2-run single in the third by Rendon (following a Harper double, Werth walk, and a double steal), and got one more back the next inning, when Pedro Severino doubled, advanced to third on a Scherzer ground out, and scored on Turner’s sac fly … Scherzer (who went 6), Solis, and Melancon blanked the Dodgers over the final 6 innings
 
Other – Max gave up a solo homer to Corey Seager in the first, and 3 more runs in the top of the third, keyed by a 2-run Justin Turner shot … Nats got plenty of hits off Kershaw, but only one with a runner in scoring position … Espinosa fanned in each of his 3 at-bats, with 2 men on each time … Nats managed only 1 hit in 5 innings off the LA bullpen … Metro acquitted itself well in both directions (although on the way back we just missed getting on a crowded Red Line train that was waiting as we arrived) … getting out of the park after the game (at the same time with 40,000+ other folks) took forever, as our experiment of taking the left field ramp was not a great success

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