Attendance: 6,086
Game Time: 2:26 (start delayed by 42 minutes due to rain)
Weather: 73 degrees, cloudy (but it got significantly cooler later in
the game)
Wind: 12 mph (and up)
Umpires: Home Plate - Angel Hernandez, First Base - Chris Conroy,
Second Base - Nick Mahrley, Third Base - Shane Livensparger
Seventh-inning stretch song: I Got You (I Feel Good) – James Brown
Section 109, Row R, Seat 7 (“Infield Box”) – Lower level (as are
virtually all the seats at The Ballpark of The Palm Beaches), almost exactly
behind home plate. I purchased “Dugout Box” tickets, which are $3-5 more
expensive, for a couple other games, but only got a few rows closer to the
action)
It was nice and sunny up until about 12:30, when a thunderstorm arrived.
Fortunately it didn’t last too long, but the game started closer to 2:00 than
the scheduled 1:05. Rain event #2 came an hour or so later, in the middle of
the 5th inning; it wasn’t hard enough to stop play, but the wind
whipped up to such an extent that most of us cleared out of the stands until it
stopped. We had a little more in the final couple innings, by which point quite
a few of the fans had already left the building.
After Hall of Famer Tim Raines threw out the first ball, Erick Fedde
and 5 Nats relievers combined to hold the visitors to 4 hits, without walking a
single batter. Fedde was particularly good, throwing a ton of ground balls
during his 5-inning stint. The only baserunners he allowed were on two one-out
singles in the 4th, but he retired Curtis Granderson and Neil Walker
to end the threat. Closer candidate Blake Treinen handled the ninth, retiring
Michael Conforto and Juan Lagares with the tying run in scoring position.
The Nats didn’t do much better against the Mets pitchers, but did
manage to scratch out an unearned run in the 3rd, as Trea reached on
an error by shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera and scored on a two-out double by Tony
Two-Bags.
Cabrera provided a little more excitement a half-inning later, as he
managed to get tossed after his one-out single. Apparently he complained a
little too much about being denied a timeout prior to the previous pitch. He
got a little bit of revenge with his exit, strolling slowly from the third-base
dugout across the middle of the field to the visitors’ clubhouse beyond right
field.
My first glance at the concession selection and prices at the Nats’ new
spring home left me less than overwhelmed. The $8.00 pair of grouper tacos was
pretty good, however.
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