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
