{"id":21824,"date":"2024-11-09T03:30:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T09:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21824"},"modified":"2024-09-03T14:23:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:23:24","slug":"ballpark-tour-nationals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/ballpark-tour-nationals-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballpark Tour: Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nationals.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9085\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nationals.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a>With the offseason in full swing, we continue our tour of all of the different baseball stadiums I\u2019ve been to over the years. This week, we head to our nation\u2019s capital for a look at latest home of the Washington Nationals. So, without further ado, let\u2019s take a deeper look at my history, such as it is, with Nationals Park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/nationalspark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15291\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/nationalspark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/nationalspark.jpg 750w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/nationalspark-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/nationalspark-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stadium Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Nationals Park<\/p>\n<p><strong>Years in Service:<\/strong>\u00a02008 \u2013 Present<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visits:<\/strong>\u00a01<\/p>\n<p>After playing their first three seasons at RFK Stadium following their move from Montreal, the Washington Nationals moved into their new home for the 2008 season, starting with an 3-2 walk-off victory against the Braves on March 30th.\u00a0 On January 1, 2015, the park hosted its first hockey game, as the Capitals defeated the Blackhawks in the Winter Classic.\u00a0 The All-Star Game returned to Washington in 2018 for the first time since 1969, and, this past season, the park hosted the first World Series games in Washington since 1933.<\/p>\n<p>I made my one trip to Nationals Park in June of 2019, part of an overall trip to DC celebrating Michael\u2019s grammar school graduation.\u00a0 The Nationals defeated the visiting White Sox 6-4 on a beautiful afternoon, despite the result caused by some bad bullpen outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the offseason in full swing, we continue our tour of all of the different baseball stadiums I\u2019ve been to over the years. This week, we head to our nation\u2019s capital for a look at latest home of the Washington Nationals. So, without further ado, let\u2019s take a deeper look at my history, such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[5041,555,125,8505,1522,117,8488,8504,49,8506],"class_list":["post-21824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-all-star-game","tag-blackhawks","tag-braves","tag-capitals","tag-mdm","tag-nationals","tag-nationals-park","tag-rfk-stadium","tag-white-sox","tag-winter-classic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21824"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21883,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21824\/revisions\/21883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}