After The
Disco – Broken Bells
Heard
4/13/2016 around 5:50, at Chipotle (Fallsgrove)
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Monday, April 11, 2016
April 10, 2016 – Nationals 4, Marlins 2 – Nationals Park
Attendance: 24,593
Game Time: 2:52
Weather: 43 degrees, sunny
Wind: 2 mph
Umpires: Home Plate - Will Little, First
Base - Ted Barrett, Second Base - Toby Basner, Third Base - Lance Barksdale
Seventh-inning stretch song: Actually went
with an extended, old-timey version of Take Me Out To The Ballgame (perhaps a
one-time experiment, as it was impossible to sing along to)
Section 308, Row D, Seats 9-11 (our new “regular”
section for the year)
Highlights – not exactly warm, but a sunny
day with absolutely no rain for a change … due to Saturday’s weather-related
postponement, I wound up being at the first 4 games the Nats played at home
this year (2 exhibition + 2 regular-season) … after allowing a leadoff triple
to Dee Gordon, Joe Ross settled down to pitch 7 strong innings, blanking the
Marlins after allowing one run in the first … Nats got that run right back courtesy
of a Rendon single and a Harper double … Nats finally broke through in the
bottom of the seventh, when Werth drove in one run with a bases-loaded single
(for his first hit of the year) and Clint Robinson provided some insurance by
singling in two more … Papelbon converted his third save despite allowing a Christian
Yelich homer
Other – the Nashville fried chicken sandwich
from Mike Isabella’s new Catchfly Kitchen was good, although seriously
overpriced at $14 (the BBQ ribs were a breath-taking $18)