April 15, 2018 – Rockies 6, Nats 5 – Nationals Park

https://www.mlb.com/nationals/news/nationals-miss-chances-in-loss-to-rockies/c-272336004

 

Attendance: 25,462

Duration: 3:14

Weather: 52 degrees, Rain

Wind: 12 MPH In From Right

Umpires: HP: Jerry Meals. 1B: Ben May. 2B: Ron Kulpa. 3B: Gabe Morales.

 

Back to miserable weather, and a weird and miserable finish to the Nats’ 3-7 home stand.

 

Game notes – Nats drew 10 walks, but stranded 8 and went 0-8 with runners in scoring position … 2 of their runs came on solo homers (Harper in the 1^st, Wieters in the 6^th) … with the bases loaded via walks and 2 out in the bottom of the 5^th, Rockies catcher Chris Iannetta missed a pitch to Ryan Zimmerman and then threw the ball past the Rockies’ pitcher, allowing 2 runs to score … in the 8^th, after Wieters inexplicably (and unsuccessfully) attempted to steal second, Taylor doubled with 2 outs, easily stole 3^rd, and scored on a wild pitch … Strasburg retired the first 11 batters before serving up a homer to Charlie Blackmon … after Washington’s 2-run fifth, Colorado took the lead on Blackmon’s 2-run, 2-out double, followed by a Gonzalez single … they got solo HRs in the 8^th (LeMahieu off Kelley) and 9^th (former Nat Ian Desmond off Doolittle) for the final margin

 

Other – after great weather Friday and Saturday, Sunday felt even colder and windier than predicted and announced … spent most of my day in the elevator lounge out of the cold, wind, and off-and-on rain, watching the game on the video screen … did go down to our seats for the bottom of the 5^th, 6^th, and 7^th … good traffic both ways, as we successfully navigated a new path from the GW Parkway to the 14^th Street Bridge