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
