Nationals vs Braves, Game 1

[tomterp]

What a fiasco with Kathy Lanier NOT throwing out the first pitch.      She is announced and escorted to the mound, ball in hand.  Nice round of applause from the fans.  The escort leaves, and there she is on the mound, ready to go, but the 4 umpires  are standing around home plate chatting and nobody ever came out to take the pitch.  After standing alone about 3-4 minutes  on the mound, the Nats took the field, Scherzer took the ball from her and she walked off without ever making the pitch.  What an embarrassment.

[skippy1999]

What a fiasco with Kathy Lanier NOT throwing out the first pitch.      She is announced and escorted to the mound, ball in hand.  Nice round of applause from the fans.  The escort leaves, and there she is on the mound, ready to go, but the 4 umpires  are standing around home plate chatting and nobody ever came out to take the pitch.  After standing alone about 3-4 minutes  on the mound, the Nats took the field, Scherzer took the ball from her and she walked off without ever making the pitch.  What an embarrassment.

 That sucks, amateur hour

[RobDibblesGhost]

What a fiasco with Kathy Lanier NOT throwing out the first pitch.      She is announced and escorted to the mound, ball in hand.  Nice round of applause from the fans.  The escort leaves, and there she is on the mound, ready to go, but the 4 umpires  are standing around home plate chatting and nobody ever came out to take the pitch.  After standing alone about 3-4 minutes  on the mound, the Nats took the field, Scherzer took the ball from her and she walked off without ever making the pitch.  What an embarrassment.

She was just delivering the game ball. The first pitch took place 10-15 minutes prior -  Chief Lanier escorted a young shooting victim who beat major odds to survive and the kid threw the first pitch. They always do the ceremonial first pitch as part of the pregame ceremonies, not when the team takes the field.

http://wjla.com/news/local/washington-nationals-honoring-dc-police-chief-cathy-lanier

http://wtop.com/washington-nationals/2016/09/washington-nationals-honoring-dc-police-chief-cathy-lanier/

[mitlen]

She was just delivering the game ball. The first pitch took place 10-15 minutes prior -  Chief Lanier escorted a young shooting victim who beat major odds to survive and the kid threw the first pitch. They always do the ceremonial first pitch as part of the pregame ceremonies, not when the team takes the field.

http://wjla.com/news/local/washington-nationals-honoring-dc-police-chief-cathy-lanier

http://wtop.com/washington-nationals/2016/09/washington-nationals-honoring-dc-police-chief-cathy-lanier/

The young victim got a nice round of applause.   The Chief was widely applauded when she was shown on the big screen at her seat.

[varoadking]

What a fiasco with Kathy Lanier NOT throwing out the first pitch.

She's likely more upset that after 9-1/2 years, some people in the DMV still can't spell her name... 

[tomterp]

She's likely more upset that after 9-1/2 years, some people in the DMV still can't spell her name... 

Hard to get good copy editors anymore.

[RJ2kWJ]

Noles!!

[OldChelsea]

Comparative dates on which the Nationals notched their 80th win, each season:

2012 - 31st August (131st match of season)
2016 - 5th September (137th match)
2014 - 7th September (141st match)
2013 - 17th September (150th match)
2005 - 27th September (158th match)
2015 - 28th September (156th match)
2011 - 28th September (161st match) - final win of season
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2007 - finished 73-89
2006 - finished 71-91
2010 - finished 69-93
2008 - finished 59-102
2009 - finished 59-103