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.)

Thursday, April 13, 2017

April 12, 2017 – Cardinals 6, Nationals 1 – Nationals Park


 
Attendance: 31,647
Game Time: 3:14
Weather: 77 degrees, partly cloudy
Wind: 13 mph
Umpires: Home Plate - Brian Knight, First Base - Lance Barrett, Second Base - Dale Scott, Third Base - Jim Reynolds
Seventh-inning stretch song: We Got The Beat – The Go-Gos
Section 310, Row D, Seats 20-22 – our regular location for the year, only 2 seats away from the aisle, with a nice view down the first-base line
 
Highlights – great start for Max, who fanned the first two batters … great start for the Nats’ offense, getting first-and-third with no one out in the bottom of the first on an Eaton double and a Rendon single … Scherzer fanned 10 (for the 50th time in his career) in 6 innings of work … Nats got hits in each of the last 3 innings … weather was great, Metro was uneventful, and they still had dollar dogs in the fifth inning
 
Other – Cards notched a two-out run in the first on a walk, wild pitch, and double … scored two unearned runs in the fifth in an inning that featured a Difo error, a hit batter and a walk … with the Nats still within striking distance, Piscotty launched a 3-run tater in the 9th off Blanton to put things away (the ninth homer allowed so far by the Nats bullpen) … Nats botched their first-inning threat after Rendon was picked off, Harper fanned, and Murphy grounded back to the pitcher … starting with Harper, St. Louis starter Mike Leake retired 19 Nats in a row … Werth took a called third strike with runners on first and second to end the 7th … in the 8th, with two outs, men on first and third and a run in, Jedd Gyorko made a great play on Harper’s line drive to snuff out the threat … three Scherzer pitches got by Wieters, one more WP than Max had all last year

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