Oddly, last night's announced attendance of 29,092 was the best ever at Nats Park for a Dodgers visit - previous best was 26,338 on Thursday 28th August 2008 - and our best at either venue for a home match against the Dodgers since Sunday 28th May 2006 at RFK (30,348).
That 2006 match and the three we played at RFK in 2005 (all upwards of 35k) are the only times the Nats have ever broken 30k announced attendance for the Dodgers...still can't seem to figure that out - don't SoCal expats here in DC turn out for their home teams like other emigres do?
Timing may have something to do with it - here are the prior home series against the Dodgers:
2005 - 2nd/3rd/4th August (Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday) - attendances 36/36/35k
2006 - 26th/27th/28th May (Fr/Sa/Su) - attendances 22/26/30k
2007 - 29th/30th/31st May (Tu/We/Th) - attendances 18/22/20k
2008 - 26th/27th/28th August (Tu/We/Th) - attendances 26/22/26k
2009 - 22nd/23rd/24th September (Tu/We/Th) - attendances 18/18/22k
2010 - 23rd/24th/25th April (Fr/Sa/Su) - attendances 23/18/18k
Note that we've gotten them in here for weekend series only twice, and once of those came in April (I don't recall the weather being all that favourable for that series) - otherwise it's been midweek series, usually late in the season, not exactly crowd-pullers.
