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, August 2, 2021

August 1, 2021 – Nats 6, Cubs 5

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/cubs-vs- nationals/2021/08/01/633044#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=wrap,game=633044

 

Weather: 76 degrees, cloudy.

Wind: 1 mph, out to CF.

Umpires: HP--Moore, 1B--Eddings, 2B--Knight, 3B--Morales.

Time: 3:20

Attendance - 25,520

 

Trois étoiles:

#3 – Center fielder Rafael Ortega (Cubs). Hate to recognize an opponent, but it’s difficult not to when he hit 3 homers and drove in all 5 Chicago runs.

#2 – Josh Bell. Drove in half of Washington’s runs with 3rd and 4th inning singles.

#1 – Yadiel Hernandez. Leadoff single in the 2nd, RBI single in the 3rd, solo homer in the 7th to extend Washington’s lead to 5-3, and a leadoff dinger in the bottom of the 9th for the walkoff win.

 

The Chicago offense was nothing if not efficient, as only 4 guys not named Rafael Ortega reached base all afternoon. Two of them got on while pinch-hitting for the Chicago pitcher, with both scoring on Ortega HRs. The Cubs left only one runner on base for the game. (The Nats stranded 10.)

 

The weather wasn’t great, but it could have been worse. The light rain as the game started soon got heavy enough to clear most of the fans (including us) from our seats, resulting in some extra grounds crew work on the infield but no actual interruption in play. Fortunately it lightened up relatively quickly, and the sun actually appeared late in the game.

 

Our early arrival once again resulted in free parking, and we took advantage of the extra time to wander down to TaKorean for lunch. (A couple sparrows who landed on our outdoors table looking for crumbs wound up disappointed, though.)

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