June 21

We took a short trip to Washington from Philly. We took the Metro Subway into this afternoon game from out hotel and it took about 15 minutes. It’s always easier if one can take public transportation to the game.

Nationals Stadium is another modern and beautiful stadium. I believe Target Field in Minneapolis will look something like this one and baseball fans will be impressed. We had excellent seats behind homeplate in the third deck, but it appeared there were no bad seats in the ball park.

This was the first game in our tour that we have not been under the some kind of roof and it was good for today’s game. Temperature at game time was an uncharacteristic (for June in Washington DC) 75 degrees and partly cloudy.

When the locals found out we were from Minnesota, they all had to let us know how mad they were the the Griffiths moved them from Washington to Minnesota. WOW, that was in 1961...and I thought the South still complains about the outcome of the Civil War.

The Nationals had a three game winning streak going into this game, but showed why they have the worst record in baseball by giving up four runs in the first inning and losing 9-4.

We took the Metro into DC and walked around the Capitol and down to the Washington Monument before going back to our hotel.

june 21

RUNNING RECORD WINS
Home Team – 3
Away Team – 6

American League – 4
National League – 5