Attendance: 38,898
Game Time: 3:12
Weather: 84 degrees, cloudy
Wind: 6 mph
Umpires: Home Plate - Jeff Kellogg, First
Base - John Tumpane, Second Base - Alan Porter, Third Base - Mark Carlson
Seventh-inning stretch song: The Sweet
Escape – Gwen Stefani
Highlights – Strasburg went to 9-0 with 6
innings of one-run ball … after Brandon Moss briefly gave the Cards the lead
with a homer in the top of the 4th, the Nats struck back with 3 in
the bottom half, keyed by a two-out, two-run single by Wilson Ramos … the Cards
made things closer in the top of the 7th by eking out a run (could
have been much worse), only to see the Nats put things away with a 5-spot after
the stretch (leadoff homer by Rendon, followed 5 batters later by a Jayson
Werth pinch grand slam) … Ramos capped his perfect day with a two-run shot the
next inning
Other – not the hottest day at the park ever,
but the humidity was through the roof, making it feel like sitting in a sauna
for most of the game … a little rain finally showed up near the end of the
game, so we decided to leave our (uncovered) seats and watch the final 3 outs
from the concourse … took about an hour to get there despite leaving at 10:30,
as traffic taking the ramp to Arlington Memorial Cemetery slowed traffic on the
GW Parkway … return trip started inauspiciously when “Highway To Hell” was the
first song that came up on the radio, but after the first few blocks things
were pretty smooth (55 minutes total), although the backup on the Parkway to
get onto the Legion Bridge was much longer than usual … made first visits to
both The Bullpen (across from the Metro station) and the Budweiser Brew House
(formerly the Red Porch Restaurant)
