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 16, 2024

September 14, 2024 – Nats 4, Marlins 1

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/WAS/WAS202409140.shtml

 

Start time: 4:05pm

Time: 2:22

Attendance: 28,175

Start Time Weather: 81° F, Wind 11mph from Right to Left, Sunny, No Precipitation.

 

The Nationals put together excellent starting pitching, shutout work from the bullpen, and three solo homers to pick up a reasonably stress-free victory. Having the worst team in the league as the opponent didn’t hurt either.

 

The teams traded runs in the 2nd inning, with Joey Gallo answering Miami’s tally with a second-deck home run. Two innings later, Washington scored again when José Tena singled, stole second, and scored on a Keibert Ruiz single. The Nats completed their pattern of scoring a run in every even-numbered inning on home runs by Tena and Juan Yepez in the 6th and 8th.

 

Patrick Corbin had little trouble with Miami’s anemic offense, giving up only one run in his six innings of work. Robert Garcia, Derek Law, and Kyle Finnegan blanked the visitors over the final three frames. Overall, the four of them combined to fan 11 while issuing only one walk.

 

This was the only Saturday game included in our season ticket plan, presumably so we could pick up the bobblehead honoring the 1924 world champion Washington Senators. Our half of Metro’s Red Line was closed between Grosvenor and Medical Center due to track maintenance, so we improvised by driving to Wheaton and riding the other half of the line into DC.

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