Posts Tagged ‘Nationals Park’
We Love Sports: The Wounded Warrior Amputee Celebrity Softball Game
“Not many people get an opportunity to actually come down on the field,” 21-year-old Josh Wege said after his pre-game warm up at Nationals Park with ball and glove in tote. “Well … they actually get to come on the field but to actually play a game on this field, this is incredible.”
It’s true. More [...]
Homestand Preview: Late July – Early August
Welcome to the dog days of summer in Nats Town. The Nationals start a nine-game homestand tonight; they’ll play three series against NL East foes, and they’ll need to come out 6-3 if they want any shot at making a run at the Wild Card. Unfortunately, I don’t see that happening, but there’s a good [...]
More »We Love Sports: The 50th Annual Congressional Baseball Game
Over 60 members of congress assembled at Nationals Park last Thursday night to take part in a timeless American tradition – baseball. The men and women who serve our country on Capitol Hill rallied to play the 50th annual Congressional Baseball game. Politics aside, the evening played host to an informal grudge match between the [...]
More »We Love Sports: Nats U for Women
There’s a scene in the 1992 movie “A League of Their Own” where catcher Dottie Hinson, played by Gina Davis, her younger sister Kit and their future teammate Marla Hooch first set foot on the warning track of the fictional Harvey Field for the first-ever All-American Girls Baseball League tryouts.
It’s that first glance inside the [...]
Homestand Preview: Padres and Phillies
‘Bright and Ballsy’
courtesy of ‘Kevin H.’
There are few things that say summertime quite like baseball. With the long weekend coming, the Nationals (21-28) return home for a six-game homestand against the Padres (20-30) and Phillies (31-19). The road trip wasn’t as kind to the Nationals as the previous one, with the Nationals going 1-7 across [...]
Homestand Preview: Marlins & Pirates
‘ballpark crescent’
courtesy of ‘philliefan99′
Welcome to the sweet spot of the baseball season in Washington, when the weather is perfect, the team is playing good cohesive ball, and there are enough deals and giveaways to make a night at the ballpark sound absolutely redeeming. The Nats come home this Friday night for a short but sweet [...]
Nats shut-out by Lee, drop series to Philly in 4-0 loss
‘2ND’courtesy of ‘MissChatter’
Cliff Lee, much like Roy Halladay on Wednesday, was a force of nature that the Nationals just couldn’t contend with. Lee racked up 12 strikeouts in a complete game shutout of the Nationals to close out the opening series against the Phillies in front of 24,875 mostly Philadelphia fans on a perfect April [...]
This Week in Food
‘Pork Loin with Kumquat Marmalade @ Ardeo’
courtesy of ‘jimcollins’
Talk about an empire. DCMud.com reports that restaurateur Ashok Bajaj, the man behind Bombay Club, 701, Rasika, and Ardeo + Bardeo could soon sign a lease for the retail space at 22 West in West End. Bajaj somewhat hinted at a new project in a chat last month with my fave [...]
Season Wrap-Up: The Nationals
‘Friday Night Fireworks’courtesy of ‘MudflapDC’
The baseball season is over and done with. Hockey starts Friday, and Basketball in a few weeks. The beginnings of winter are incumbent upon us to respect, and the end of the baseball season is a part of that winterizing process. This was a season of growth for the Nationals in [...]
Nats drop home closer to Phillies
‘Roger Bernadina is Safe!’courtesy of ‘MudflapDC’
Ross Detwiler was read like a book on Wednesday night’s home closer at Nationals Park, and the crowd of just over 20,000 watched four home run balls sail out of the yard to propel the Phillies to a 7-1 victory. It was a cool evening at Nationals Park, but that [...]
Nats drop embarrassing game to Diamondbacks, 8-2
Photo by Anthony Amobi / Nats Daily News
The Nats have a hard choice right now. Jason Marquis’ last two starts are little better than his April ones. Tonight he pitched just 4 innings, but gave up 5 runs on 7 hits, walking 2 more. Asked after the game tonight, manager Jim Riggleman said, “his sinker [...]
The Nationals Honor Their Heritage
Pictured: Andre Dawson waving and Gary Carter (on the right). Photo by Ian Koski / Nationals Daily News
Gary Carter showed up at Nationals Park Tuesday to help the Washington Nationals honor his former teammate. Much to his surprise, the Nationals hadn’t reserved all of the night’s festivities for 2010 Hall of Fame inductee Andre Dawson [...]
Ryan Zimmerman’s “A Night at the Park” in Photos
Pictured: The Zimmerman family (Ryan , Cheryl, Keith, and Shawn).
Nationals Park played host to Ryan Zimmerman’s “A Night at the Park” on Monday to raise money for the the ziMS Foundation. The ziMS Foundation, which was started by Zimmerman to benefit multiple sclerosis research, was inspried by his mother Cheryl who was diagnosed with the disease in 1995. [...]
Hudson mystifies Nationals, Braves win 3-1
Photo by Cheryl Nichols, Nationals News Network
The running gag in the postgame press conferences at Nationals Park from Manager Jim Riggleman is that he tends to say something about running into aces, and playing hard ball. Tonight the Nationals did both. They faced the Braves’ ace in Tim Hudson, who went 7 2/3 [...]
A Look at the Expos’ Place in Nationals History
‘my trusty, soon-to-be-retired expos hat’
courtesy of ‘permanently scatterbrained’
The Nationals announced Tuesday afternoon that the team will be honoring 2010 Hall of Fame inductee Andre “The Hawk” Dawson, who played for the franchise in Montreal with a tri-colored Expos cap atop his head from 1976-1986, on August 10 at Nationals Park.
It’s easy to fall victim to [...]
Nats drop finale to the Giants
On a picturesque July Sunday, the Giants came out swinging. With the series on the line in the last game before the All Star Break, they’d get a pair of walks and a pair of singles off Livan Hernandez to jump out to a 2-0 lead. Livo was reaching for the corners but not finding [...]
More »Nats Fall to Royals, 1-0
Photo by Ian Koski / Nationals Daily News
Looking for the sweep today, the Nationals brought out their ace, Stephen Strasburg, to cement a winning streak and build some momentum, going into the weekend series against Baltimore. Sadly, the team’s offense couldn’t deliver, in a game fraught with mistakes and misplays, in some cases over-sliding bases, [...]
Nats With Bats Revive Stats
A humid Washington evening in the early days of summer is a bit of a difficult environment for baseball. You never know when a storm will break out. Tonight, the Royals were the recipients of a pair of storms: one from the Nationals’ bats, and the other from Mother Nature herself. A 49-minute rain delay [...]
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