Posts Tagged ‘RFK Stadium’

More about the last RFK game

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After three seasons of Nationals baseball, Erica and spent yesterday at RFK Stadium for the last game. While I have enjoyed going there for the last three baseball seasons, I don’t get sentimental about this being the final game. I’m just glad a team finally started playing in it after so [...]

Nationals end RFK Stadium era with victory over Phillies

flickr set: RFK Finale
WASHINGTON 5 Philadelphia 3 (CBS Sports Boxscore)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three seasons of Nationals baseball at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium came to an end yesterday in an exciting 5-3 victory before a lively season high crowd of over 40,000. The pagentry was high, but so was the excitement on the field. Austin [...]

Final RFK homestand begins tonight

RFK Stadium, opened for baseball in 1962 and hosted 13 major league seasons in two seperate eras has, only ten more games scheduled (The Post). The position players won’t miss RFK Stadium very much. They view it as a place where home runs go to die. The pitchers will probably miss it though as the [...]

Nats lose; 12 innings in an empty stadium

FLORIDA 5 Washington 4 (CBS Sports Boxscore)
After 12 Innings, Nats Left Feeling Vacant – The Post
Nats lose in marathon – The Wash. Times
Before about 400 people, the Nationals fell to the Marlins in 12 innings yesterday. The loss puts Florida only two back of Washington for fourth place. 41 different players were in the game [...]

Zimmerman wins it in the ninth on Negro Leagues night

HOMESTEAD GRAYS 3 ST. LOUIS STARS 2 (CBS Sportsline Boxscore)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — I don’t know if it was the heat that made the game seem to moved slowly, but the Grays victory over St. Louis was kind of boring until the ninth inning. As he is apt to do, Ryan Zimmerman had another game-winning RBI [...]

Improvement!

Los Angeles 5 WASHINGTON 0 (ESPN Boxscore)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — When a franchise is rebuilding, wins and loses are not necessarily the most important aspect of a game. Take last night for example. The Nationals gave up half as many runs to the Dodgers as the night before — they lost 5-0 instead of 10-0, [...]

Opening Day thoughts

I got back from RFK not too long several hours ago. The Nats season started off about the same as last year — a big loss on a beautiful day.
I biked to RFK Stadium again. It is about eight miles from Pentagon City. Aside from lots of pedestrian traffic between Capitol Hill and Arlington Memorial [...]

Happy Opening Day!

It is Opening Day 3.0 and for the first time in about 35 years, Opening Day IS Opening Day. Hooray!
It looks like we are in for a good one — the forecast is 79° and sunny. If by chance you didn’t take a vacation day already you might want to pull a Ferris Bueller and [...]

Single game tickets go on sale today

Good morning! Are you in line yet for your Nationals single game tickets? They go on sale for people who don’t read Capitol Punishment (why wouldn’t you?) at 9 a.m. on nationals.com at at the RFK Stadium box office. Rick Snider of talks about the big games on this year’s schedule in today’s The Wash. [...]

RFK Stadium 2011

BTW, did you see the Legion of Doom in the background?
©MMX William F. Yurasko

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