Tuesday, May 1, 2018

April 29, 2018 – Nats 3, Diamondbacks 1 – Nationals Park


 
Attendance: 30,285
Duration: 2:49
Weather: 54 degrees, Partly Cloudy
Wind: 18 MPH Left to Right
Umpires: HP: Bill Welke. 1B: Mike Everitt. 2B: Tony Randazzo. 3B: Nic Lentz.
 
We finally see the Nats win one!
 
Game notes – Arizona starter Robbie Ray had to exit in the second inning with what turned out to be a right oblique injury … Wieters homered off T.J. McFarland, who replaced Ray during his at-bat … with two outs in the inning the Nats loaded the bases on two walks surrounding Gio’s single, and plated another run when McFarland booted Zim’s chopper … Taylor homered in the 3rd to give the Nats what turned out to be their final run of the game … Gio allowed some baserunners but kept the visitors off the scoreboard thru 6 innings … with his pitch count in the mid-90s but the bullpen heavily taxed, Davey allowed him to hit for himself and pitch the 7th, during which he allowed one run on a sac fly … Kintzler and Doolittle shut out Arizona over the final 2 frames to nail down the much-needed victory
 
Other – weather still windy and somewhat chilly, but much better than our two previous Sunday games … despite multiple promotions (Youth Baseball/Softball Day, kids fidget spinner giveaway, Pups in the Park), the number of occupied seats appeared to be significantly below the paid attendance … traffic down was wonderful, and not too bad coming back either … our first Signature Sunday of the season featured Trevor Gott and Andrew Stevenson

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