Nationals @ Athletics, Game 1

[spidernat]

This stadium is a craphole I don't want to watch for three games.

How can their fans watch this 81 times a year?

The game is taking place between the lines.

[spidernat]

I can't remember who played. I think the Red Sox. It was billed as an attempt to show MLB that DC deserved and could support a team IIRC.

I'm pretty sure I remember the cardinals playing in one of those games.


Here's an article about Shirley Povich that mentions the old timer game referenced earlier.

https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-washington-post/20121005/283287454868970

[Natsinpwc]

This stadium is a craphole I don't want to watch for three games.

How can their fans watch this 81 times a year?

Grass is green. Dirt is brown.

[skippy1999]

Murph

[mmzznnxx]

Murphy may be the best free-agent signing we've ever or will ever have.

[Slateman]

I guess we're back to relying on the long ball

[welch]

Where is Billy Burns?

Traded to the Royals. Burns had a bad season last year.

[stealyerbase]

Nice whack Murph! 

[Natsinpwc]

MurphDawg.

[spidernat]

expos played the cardinals at RFK in 1999.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1999/03/28/rfk-set-for-expos-cardinals/4299ee35-2a53-47f9-801b-125f1695f8ee/?utm_term=.558e00517bcb

[skippy1999]

Grass is green. Dirt is brown.

Everything about it is dismal

[Natsinpwc]

Everything about it is dismal

Looks like a very nice field. You must not have been a fan during the AstroTurf days.

[skippy1999]

Looks like a very nice field. You must not have been a fan during the AstroTurf days.

Ha I actually used to like to watch the Astros for some strange reason

[nats2playoffs]

I likey Mikey.

2nd   Taylor homered (5th) to center.   1   0
3rd   Murphy homered (10th) to right center.   2   0

Washington Nationals 2
    Oakland Athletics  0
     

[stealyerbase]

Keep it up boys, 9-0 works for me.

[stealyerbase]

Ha I actually used to like to watch the Astros for some strange reason

Prolly those awesome unis 

[aBaltoNat]

My man, Daniel Murphy.

Have to laugh at MAT when he hits homers, he really does look embarrassed.

[welch]

Wasn't there an old-timers game at RFK back in the day where they didn't reconfigure the football stands?  Seems like the right field fence was at some ridiculously short distance...like maybe 230 feet. 

I think that was the LF fence. When configured for football, the "bouncy" stands would roll out from underneath the 3B-side stands. At some point, probably by the late '70s, the stands were rusted into place. Nobody bothered to un-rust them while baseball was on "the long road-trip".

DC / RFK Stadium was always about 325 or 335 down the LF and RF lines. That was considered a short-porch compared to Griffith Stadium.

[spidernat]

He won't get anywhere near my prediction of 14 K's.

[Mathguy]

Does he really look embarrassed - or like a little kid ?

Have to laugh at MAT when he hits homers, he really does look embarrassed.

[aBaltoNat]

Does he really look embarrassed - or like a little kid ?

Maybe that's it. I wouldn't know.

Haven't been allowed within 100 yards of a school for the past 7 years.

[mmzznnxx]

He won't get anywhere near my prediction of 14 K's.

With a good roll of the die and a game of Scattergories, he could end up one short.

[stealyerbase]

I think that was the LF fence. When configured for football, the "bouncy" stands would roll out from underneath the 3B-side stands. At some point, probably by the late '70s, the stands were rusted into place. Nobody bothered to un-rust them while baseball was on "the long road-trip".

DC / RFK Stadium was always about 325 or 335 down the LF and RF lines. That was considered a short-porch compared to Griffith Stadium.

You are correct sir. 200' left field rusted stand fence.

[Slateman]

That ball was murdered

[bluestreak]

FP with the Jinx...