As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Monday, September 3, 2018

September 2, 2018 – Brewers 9, Nats 4 – Nationals Park



Attendance: 33,032
Duration: 3:22
Weather: 88 degrees, Partly cloudy
Wind: S 7 MPH
Umpires: HP: Hoberg. 1B: Knight. 2B: Whitson. 3B: Carlson. 

Game notes – Nats starter Jefry Rodriguez walked the first two batters of the game, both of whom scored on Mike Moustakas’s single … Nats narrowed the deficit an inning later on Difo’s homer, and took the lead with 3 in the in the 3rd, on singles by Soto and Reynolds after loading the bases … the Brewers basically put the game away by scoring 7 runs with 2 out in the 5th inning, starting when Rodriguez yielded a 3-run homer to Keon Broxton … things went from bad to worse when Tim Collins relieved Rodriguez with 2 on, walked the next batter on 4 pitches, then served up a grand slam to Christian Yelich … Washington pitchers tied a team record for a 9-inning game by walking 11 (7 by Rodriguez) … Austen Williams made his major league debut and provided 2 scoreless innings in relief of Collins 

Note – After the game, Davey said that several relievers were unavailable, which led him to keep Rodriguez (whose 100 pitches included 50 balls and 50 strikes) in the game even after the Broxton homer. There’s really no excuse for a major league team to be short of pitchers in September with the 25-man roster limit no longer in effect, but the team’s decision to delay calling up additional bullpen help (beyond Williams) is on management (and ownership?), not on Martinez.

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