Tuesday, July 3, 2018

July 2, 2018 – Red Sox 4, Nats 3 – Nationals Park


 
Attendance: 39,002
Duration: 3:15
Weather: 95 degrees, Clear
Wind: 10 MPH Out to Center
Umpires: HP: Jerry Layne. 1B: Vic Carapazza. 2B: Jordan Baker. 3B: Jeremie Rehak.
 
Game notes – after retiring the visitors 1-2-3 in the 1st, Scherzer ran into trouble the next inning, when a single, hit batter, and a wild pitch gave Boston runners on 2nd and 3rd with 2 out … Nats elected to walk the light-hitting Jackie Bradley Jr., which backfired spectacularly when pitcher Rick Porcello doubled to clear the bases … Max ran into more trouble in the 3rd, with his pitch count mounting, but recovered to last 6 innings and prevent further damage … Porcello limited Washington to solo homers by Rendon in the 4th and Murphy in the 6th, but Kintzler entered in the top of the 7th and gave up a leadoff Mookie Betts shot to negate Murphy’s blast … Joe Kelly allowed a leadoff HR by Harper in the 8th, but fanned the next 2 batters, and Boston closer Craig Kimbrel did the rest
 
Other – our drive down was relatively slow, meaning that our usual parking area was full, so we had to go back to The Lot Formerly Known As HH as a backup … despite the extreme heat, the Nats didn’t appear to open a cooling room, to my great surprise

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