Saturday, September 8, 2018

Shuffle #111 (September 8, 2018)

All Is Mine – The Association
Let The Good Times Roll – Eva Cassidy & Chuck Brown
The Drinking Gourd – Joe & Eddie
I’m A Man – Chicago
Six Man Band – The Association
10 Rocks – Shelby Lynne
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – U2
The Summer Wind – Frank Sinatra
68 Guns – The Alarm

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 There’s really no excuse for a major league team to be short of pitchers in September with the 25-man roster limit no longer in effect, but the team’s decision to delay calling up additional bullpen help (beyond Williams) is on management (and ownership?), not on Martinez.

Sunday, September 2, 2018

Shuffle #110 (September 2, 2018)


He Thinks He’ll Keep Her – Mary Chapin Carpenter
Save Your Heart For Me – Gary Lewis & The Playboys
Annie Get Your Gun – Squeeze
Amsterdam – Guster
You’ll Never Get To Heaven – Dionne Warwick
Short People – Randy Newman
Runaway – Iain Matthews
The Same Love That Made Me Laugh – Queen Latifah
Some Bridges Need Burning – Keisa Brown