The Washington Navy Yard is only a few blocks from Nationals Stadium, so the scheduled Monday evening game between the Nats and the Braves was postponed and they played a double header on Tuesday. The Nats took the afternoon game in a rousing bottom-of-the-ninth comeback, scoring three runs against Braves closer Craig Kimbrel, who is arguably the best pitcher in baseball. Kimbrel had only blown three saves this season. But he couldn't find the strike zone today, so make that four. If I'm wrong about the Nationals being metaphysically eliminated and by some miracle they make the playoffs, we will all look back on this game as the turning point. The Nationals had not beaten Atlanta in DC this season.
In the second game, Nats rookie right-hander Tanner Roark pitched six innings of shut-out ball, and the bullpen held the shut-out. Roark got his seventh consecutive win in seven major league starts--something no rookie has ever done. And the Nationals swept the double-header.
Flags in the stadium--and indeed across the city--were at half-staff, and many fans were wearing some sort of Navy blue, or a hat or shirt emblazoned with NAVY, in memory of the Navy civilians killed on Monday. DC is a very somber place today.
The temperatures in DC have hit normal late September ranges--63 at game time, and dropping to 58 in the ninth inning heading for 52 overnight in the city.
J.Crew cords, LL Bean blue and white Oxford stripe OCBD, Bass Weejuns, Monetti Merino sweater, Harrington jacket from Orvis, LL Bean saddle leather belt, Korean War vintage Elgin "garrison"
(non-hack) watch on nylon.
