{"id":32889,"date":"2019-10-09T01:34:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T05:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=32889"},"modified":"2019-09-10T12:30:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T16:30:06","slug":"a-night-at-the-ballpark-nationals-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2019\/10\/09\/a-night-at-the-ballpark-nationals-park\/","title":{"rendered":"A Night at the Ballpark&#8212; National&#8217;s Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I love baseball, and I especially love seeing new Major League parks, and I have never been to Nationals Park\u2026 until now.  It is a beautiful large park, and somewhat resembles Jacobs Field in Cleveland. And the amenities have really changed at ballparks\u2014 I actually had a lobster roll! And just down the way they were serving cocktails of all sorts.  Yes\u2026 there was still hot dogs and beer. Two of my fine Asbury colleagues, Tammy Cessna and Tammy Hogan went to the game on a beautiful cool night. The ballpark is quite easily reached from the Museum of the Bible as both are in the southwest corner of D.C. and the Metro goes right to the park. And we got lucky\u2014 excellent seats at cheap prices as the woeful Orioles were in town\u2026 and even more luck, we got to see Mad Max Scherzer pitch. The Nationals won easily\u2014 8 to 4. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/09\/2019-08-28-17.11.47.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/09\/2019-08-28-17.11.47-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32898\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/09\/2019-08-28-17.12.40.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/09\/2019-08-28-17.12.40-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32901\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/09\/2019-08-28-19.10.37.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/09\/2019-08-28-19.10.37-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32904\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/09\/2019-08-28-19.32.01.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/09\/2019-08-28-19.32.01-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32907\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/09\/2019-08-28-17.57.46-e1567212141873.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/09\/2019-08-28-17.57.46-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32910\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/09\/2019-08-28-18.04.36-1-e1567212172543.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/09\/2019-08-28-18.04.36-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32913\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/09\/2019-08-28-17.39.21.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/09\/2019-08-28-17.39.21-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32916\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/09\/2019-08-28-17.11.10-e1567212252202.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/09\/2019-08-28-17.11.10-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32919\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love baseball, and I especially love seeing new Major League parks, and I have never been to Nationals Park\u2026 until now. 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