Despite the weather, a really low-turn out, and another loss, we had a blast at the game on Thursday night. It was our fifth game in seven days, and for us, the end of our first home stretch, wrapping up a busy week full of baseball.

We seemed to continue our streak of strange (lucky) things happening to us at Nats games. This time, a random person gave one of us 4 free tickets in 316. We haven’t yet actually sat in our season ticket seats, but we’re not complaining.

We also each invested in buying a baseball to collect autographs through the summer — and we were quite successful in our first attempt; Matt Chico, Kory Casto and Ryan Wagner all came out to sign. We were prepared for meeting Ryan Wagner — with blowpops and tootsie pops (Note: he prefers blowpops, but took the orange tootsie pop too because he likes orange).

We also were interviewed by DC’s PBS affiliate WETA-TV 26 for a special on Nationals baseball to air later in the summer. We told them why we love baseball so much, who our favorite players are, etc. Oh, they caught the Wagner lollipop exchange too.

The seats were great, but the weather was crazy. The crowd was small and made the game pretty intimate. We were finally able to hear the players’ new batting songs! Z-man taught us all about “ripping a big hole in the bag” to do the sunflower seeds thing.

Not so thrilled by Casto’s strikeouts, glad Austin is waiting past first pitches now, and glad the score was at least close, it was worth braving the cold. We did manage to take a “We’ve Got Heart” sign, but our entertainment-guy-friend kept walking past us.

Assessment of Section 316? Very serious baseball fans; a lot of scorekeepers. Great to be around serious fans!

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