Shuffle #96 (May 20, 2017)

Come As You Are – Nirvana

I’ve Got To Use My Imagination – Gladys Knight & The Pips

Anyone Who Had A Heart – Dionne Warwick

North Side Gal – JD McPherson

Mirror In The Bathroom – The English Beat

Can’t Get You Out Of My Head – Kylie Minogue

Over And Over – The Dave Clark Five

Greasy Heart – Jefferson Airplane

Just Another Day – John Mellancamp

Da Doo Ron Ron – The Crystals

Dream Dancing – Scott Hamilton

Serendipity #67

Bad Bad World – Guster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukdZMtzgb1c

Heard 5/12/2017 around 12:35pm, at Wegman’s (Germantown)

May 14, 2017 – Nats 6, Phillies 5 (Game 2) – Nationals Park

http://m.nationals.mlb.com/news/article/230293680/taylor-home-run-lifts-nationals-past-phillies/

 

Attendance: 30,137

Game Time: 3:34

Weather: 78 degrees, partly cloudy

Wind: 9 mph

Umpires: Home Plate - Andy Fletcher, First Base - Alan Porter, Second Base - Joe West, Third Base - Chris Segal

 

Section 416, Row F, Seats 3-5 (back in our old Section 416 stomping grounds)

 

Notes – the ultimate see-saw game, which was tied 3-3 when we left the building in the middle of the 6^th … worst moment came in the top of the 4^th, when Scherzer was hit on the left knee by a 100-MPH liner off the bat of Michael Saunders … Max stayed in the game, and after allowing two runs to score in the inning, struck out the Phils on 9 pitches in the 5^th before allowing another run in his final inning of work … Velasquez was his typical inefficient self for Philadelphia, needing 100 pitches to get through 5 innings while allowing 3 runs … Luis Garcia allowed the Nats to take the lead in the bottom of the 6^th by allowing a double to pinch-hitter Brian Goodwin after walking leadoff batter Anthony Rendon … Phils went back on top in the 8^th when Matt Grace and Jacob Turner each walked a batter and Galvis tripled them home … Nats regained the lead in the bottom of the frame on a two-run homer by Taylor (who had fanned in his previous 3 ABs) off Neshek, and Matt Albers saved the day (and game) for the Nats with a 1-2-3 ninth

May 14, 2017 – Phillies 4, Nats 3 (Game 1) – Nationals Park

http://m.phillies.mlb.com/news/article/230179460/phillies-come-from-behind-to-defeat-nationals/

 

Attendance: 31,738

Game Time: 3:02

Weather: 74 degrees, sunny

Wind: 13 mph

Umpires: Home Plate - Hunter Wendelstedt, First Base - Chris Segal, Second Base - Alan Porter, Third Base - Joe West

 

Notes – Gio struggled with high pitch counts the first couple of innings, but didn’t allow a run until Tommy Joseph took him deep in the 7^th … by that time, the Nats had built a 3-0 lead off Hellickson on a Harper solo shot in the 1^st and a 2-run blast by Turner in the 5^th … Matt Albers got the final out of the 7^th and combined with Enny Romero to keep the Phils off the board in the 8^th … Phillies finally broke through against the Nats beleaguered bullpen in the 9^th, as Aaron Altherr led off with a homer off Kelley, followed by hard-hit doubles by Franco and Rupp to tie things up … after Kelley walked Galvis, Koda Glover came in and gave up a game-deciding single to the seldom-used Ty Kelly … 3 Phils relievers held the Nats scoreless over the final 4 innings (with Neris getting the save), despite combining with Hellickson to fan only one Nationals batter the entire game

 

Other – beautiful Mother’s Day weather for what turned out to be two ballgames, as Friday’s game (to which we had tickets) featuring a Trea Turner bobblehead giveaway was postponed and rescheduled for Sunday night … we left the park after Game 1 of the split double-header and immediately got into the (then relatively short) Season Plan Holder line outside the left field gate … all of the lines got incredibly long as the 6:10 gate opening time approached, and reportedly things got somewhat cutthroat and testy