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, July 15, 2024

Serendipity #81

Guster – This Is How It Feels To Have A Broken Heart

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV3FxhNd4UE

 

Heard 7/12/2024 around 11:40 outside Fallsgrove Village Center

July 7, 2024 – Cardinals 8, Nats 3

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/WAS/WAS202407070.shtml

 

Time: 2:59

Attendance: 19,782

Start Time Weather: 93° F, Wind 1mph from Left to Right, Cloudy, No Precipitation.

 

The weather was hot. The Nats were not. We were fortunate to be in the shade, and there was a bit of a breeze going, so we never felt the need to visit the cooling room. Presumably the game would not have looked any better from there.

 

The visitors struck first in the top of the 2nd. Washington starter DJ Herz had retired the first five St. Louis batters, but issued a 4-pitch walk with two outs, followed by a double and a single that each drove in a run. The Nats answered right back, on doubles by Jesse Winker and Juan Yepez and a Riley Adams single.

 

The Cards retook the lead with a run in the 4th and broke the game open with three in the top of the 5th. Herz was lifted after hitting 102 pitches for the afternoon, following a one-out walk and a catcher’s interference call on Adams. Dylan Floro came in and gave up singles to three of the four batters he faced, allowing three runs to score before Robert Garcia finally closed out the inning.

 

That pretty much ended the scoring, and the game. The Nats got a run back in the bottom of the 6th, but a two-run homer by Willson Contreras in the top of the 7th put an exclamation point on the St. Louis victory.