Nationals Park, United States Travel Journals & Blogs

Traveler The US of A 🇺🇲
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- Jul 19, 2024, 6:07 PM
- ☁️ 30 °C
- Altitude: 16 m
- United States Washington, D.C.Buzzard Point Nationals Park 38.874411, -77.00733338°52’28” N 77°0’26” W
Day 2
Nationals Park
July 19 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
This evening I headed to my first ever baseball game at Nationals Park, the 41.5k capacity home of the Washington Nationals.

A few things I spotted here was that it had hosted many musical artists (from 1D to Taylor Swift), Brendan Rodgers was brought out on to the pitch and there was a man not far in front of me in a Marc Guehi shirt!Read more
Traveler GREAT STADIUM 🏟 ALL THE AMERICANS WOULD BE SAYING BRENDAN WHO ?
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Traveler The US of A 🇺🇲
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- Jul 19, 2024, 7:26 PM
- ☁️ 29 °C
- Altitude: 12 m
- United States Washington, D.C.Buzzard Point Nationals Park 38.872245, -77.00702738°52’20” N 77°0’25” W
Day 2
Washington Nationals v Cincinnati Reds
July 19 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
The game got under way at 7pm. I had no idea about the rules so I was having to Google them as the game went on. And even when I thought I understood the rules something would happen that didn't make sense to me.

Anyway the general gist is that there are 9 innings in which both teams get to bat. A teams innings is over when 3 of their players are out. A player can be out by... okay I'm going to stop here as there are a lot of rules.

One thing that struck me was that they must go through dozens of balls every game as no effort is ever made to retrieve the balls from the stands. The ball girl was even giving them away to people in the stands every time she collected a ball. At one point I came within milliseconds of catching a ball but the guy next to me (pictured with the ball) got his hands in front of mine.

Washington took a comfortable lead and were 8-1 up after 7 innings. They hit two actual home runs and in one innings ran 4 home runs, impressive given that the MLB all time record is 5.

In the 9th innings though Cincinnati scored 4 home runs of their own to claw the score back to 8-5, they also had two more men on base. I was fearing a collapse by the Nationals but also thought maybe I'd see the MLB home run innings record get broken.

But next thing, all of the lights went out in the stadium and then started flashing red and white with music on top. The boards in the stadium flashed the name 'Finnegan' and everyone started going mad. It was evidently some kind of dramatic surprise substitution, which I didn't even know was possible as he wasn't in the 9 named batsmen. It was an entrance that reminded me of when John Cena came in as the last man in the 2008 Royal Rumble having been injured for over a year.

The magnificent Finnegan managed to keep Cincinnati from scoring another home run so much to the delight of the home crowd the Nationals ran out 8-5 winners.

It's fair to say I thoroughly enjoyed my first baseball experience.Read more
Traveler Going to watch football at Tranmere Rovers will seem very quiet after all the sports venues you have now been to 🙄
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Traveler SOUNDS LIKE ROUNDERS ⚾️
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Traveler The US of A 🇺🇲
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- Jul 19, 2024, 10:29 PM
- ☁️ 26 °C
- Altitude: 13 m
- United States Washington, D.C.Buzzard Point Nationals Park 38.872379, -77.00701938°52’21” N 77°0’25” W
Day 2
Carly Rae Jepson
July 19 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
The game had a post game show from none other than Carly Rae Jepsen. Despite only knowing two songs from her hour long set, I thoroughly enjoyed myself, particularly during 'Call Me Maybe'.

After the concert I took the metro back to my hostel and climbed into bed just after midnight to put an end to a very long two days turned into one.Read more
Traveler I'm exhausted just reading it all!
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Traveler What a great night!!
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Traveler USA 2023
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- Jun 19, 2023, 10:09 PM
- ☁️ 24 °C
- Altitude: 13 m
- United States Washington, D.C.Buzzard Point Nationals Park 38.872479, -77.00722538°52’21” N 77°0’26” W
Day 12
Beach to Washington
June 19, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Wieder mal fasse ich hier 2 Tage zusammen.

Gestern haben wir uns wieder einen eher gemütlichen Tag am Strand gemacht. Dieses mal sind wir jedoch eine Stunde dafür gefahren, da es dort wo wir hinfuhren besonders schön ist. Dies war es auch. Cool war, dass man ungelogen mehrere 100m ins Wasser laufen konnte und immernoch stand.

Heute fuhren wir 3 Stunden nach Washington DC und wieder zurück, um ein Baseballspiel zu sehen. Mit Schweizerdenken hört sich dies ziemlich dumm an, aber hier ist das normal. Wie wir ja alle hoffentlich wissen, reden wir von andere Distanzen in den USA.

Es waren wie immer zwei super Tage! Und mein Gedanke, einmal in diesem Land leben zu wollen wird immer wieder bestätigt und verstärkt.Read more
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Traveler 2 Bünzli‘s einmal um die Welt
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- Jun 5, 2024, 7:38 PM
- ☀️ 25 °C
- Altitude: 14 m
- United States Washington, D.C.Buzzard Point Nationals Park 38.872487, -77.00677338°52’21” N 77°0’24” W
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Arlington / Nationals Park
June 5 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Am Mittwoch gingen wir zuerst nach Arlington. Arlington ist bekannt für seinen riesigen Nationalfriedhof mit Gräbern von Kriegsveteranen & dem Grabstein von John F. Kennedy. Aktuell wird er weiter ausgebaut.

Danach gingen wir zum Navy Yard & erkundeten das Stadtviertel und die Promenade, bevor es dann ins Stadion ging.
Aufgrund des schlechten Wetters ⛈️verzögerte sich der Spielstart um knapp 1 1/2 Stunden. 🤭 Im Stadion war kaum was los, ein Mittwochnachmittags Spiel halt. Nach etwas über 2h stand es 9:1 für die New York Mets vs. Washington Nationals.Read more
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- Apr 26, 2016, 9:10 PM
- ⛅ 24 °C
- Altitude: 8 m
- United States Washington, D.C.Buzzard Point Nationals Park 38.872962, -77.00745538°52’23” N 77°0’27” W
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Still Alive... and watching baseball
April 26, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
So... I'm not dead, but my phone is, which has meant I couldn't upload anything. Makes life difficult, but I'm working on a solution.

In the mean time, I will slowly try and catch up...

Today was Capitol building, Capitol library (which had maps, I like maps), but pictures on my phone...

I also watched the Nationals lose at baseball with Katie, she is hooked now.Read more
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Traveler Ms Smith Goes to Washington
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- Jul 4, 2018
- ⛅ 31 °C
- Altitude: 10 m
- United States Washington, D.C.Buzzard Point Nationals Park 38.873063, -77.00735638°52’23” N 77°0’26” W
Day 4
Baseball, beer, and the Fourth of July
July 4, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
There were no museums in our plans today because we were going to begin our Fourth with the great American pastime. A good ‘ol baseball game!

We walked to the already busy metro and didn’t have to question if we were on the right line because the train was packed with Nats and Sox fans alike! In fact, I wasn’t sure I was going to make it into the second train because it was so full!

We arrived at the Nationals Stadium around 10:40 and the game was due to start at 11. Brad bought a Nats hat and shirt because, honestly, if you weren’t wearing red, white, and blue you were sticking out like a sore thumb! You may not agree with their gun laws, president, or tariffs, but you kind of had to be in awe of the rampant patriotism today. There was a guy wear a shirt that had the Constitution written on it!

Anyway, we got our bearings and got our beverages (two beer for $30!) before sitting in our section (109). It was hot (33c) and we were in the sun, but there were a few clouds and a breeze which made it bearable for the first two innings. By then, we were quite sweaty, so we walked the concourse to cool down and scope out lunch options. They had cooling fans stationed around the stadium, which certainly provided relief! Being traditionalists, Evan and I had Nathan’s hot dogs at the game while Brad opted for crab cake tater tots (a delicious choice, btw). We made it back to our seats just as the game got exciting! Our section was full of Sox fans, so we were fortunate that the Sox took the lead because the people around us were very excited about that!

During the 7th inning stretch, the cast of Hamilton sang God Bless America, we all sang Take Me Out to the Ballgame and two presidential mascots came out and danced. It was pretty great! Unfortunately the Nats could not get it going today and the Sox ultimately triumphed 3-0. However our section didn’t mind a bit and celebrated the victory!

We thought our ride back might be crazy, but it wasn’t too bad and we managed to get back to our hotel to cool down. The sun has worn us out these past few days, so some AC and water was needed.Read more
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