{"id":6478,"date":"2013-04-16T09:39:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T13:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=6478"},"modified":"2013-04-22T10:01:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T14:01:24","slug":"nats-trivia-home-opener-and-record-attendance-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=6478","title":{"rendered":"Nats Trivia: Home Opener and Record Attendance Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(posting this after updating for 2013&#8217;s home opener)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some fun trivia that I&#8217;ve collected over the years related to the Nats home opener Attendance and attendance records at the stadium in general.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Nats Trivia: capacity of Nats park? <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n&#8211; 41,888 at opening<br \/>\n&#8211; 41,546 in 2010<br \/>\n&#8211; 41,506 in 2011<br \/>\n&#8211; 41,487 in 2012<br \/>\n&#8211; 41,418 in 2013<\/p>\n<p>(RFK capacity: 45,596 per wikipedia\/ballparks.com)<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Nats All-time Record attendance<\/span><\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>45,966 10\/12\/12 game 5 2012 nlds<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Other\/Previous Attendance Records<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n&#8211; 45,274 Opening Day 2013 (new Regular Season record for Nats park)<br \/>\n&#8211; 45,017 10\/10\/12 first home playoff game<br \/>\n&#8211; 44,685 8\/20\/11 vs Phillies (longer standing Nats park record)<br \/>\n&#8211; 41,985 6\/24\/09 vs Boston. (Nats reg-season record standard bearer for a while)<br \/>\n&#8211; 45,157 Fathers day 2006 vs Yankees (long standing Regular season Record)<br \/>\n&#8211; 45,596 RFK franchise opener (long standing franchise attendance record)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Opening Day Attendances through the years<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n2013: 45,274 (1:05 monday game, 60 and beautiful)<br \/>\n2012: 40,907 (1:05 thursday game 56, partly cloudy)<br \/>\n2011: 39,055 (1:05 thursday game, 41 degrees and overcast)<br \/>\n2010: 41,290 (1pm game monday, beautiful weather 80s and sunny): phillies invasion<br \/>\n2009: 40,386 (3pm game on a monday, chilly 53degr and overcast).<br \/>\n2008: 39,389 (season and stadium opener), 8pm sunday night, Braves, nat&#8217;l tv but cold.<br \/>\n2007: 40,389 (in rfk, 1pm game vs Florida, 72degrees<br \/>\n2006: 40,516 (in rfk, tuesday day game vs Mets, 72degr and sunny)<br \/>\n2005: 45,596 (in rfk, debut of entire franchise, 62degr and clear, evening game).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Opening Day Box Scores<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>2013:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/washington.nationals.mlb.com\/mlb\/gameday\/index.jsp?gid=2013_04_01_miamlb_wasmlb_1&#038;mode=recap&#038;c_id=was#gid=2013_04_01_miamlb_wasmlb_1&#038;mode=box<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/boxes\/WAS\/WAS201304010.shtml<\/p>\n<p>2012: http:\/\/washington.nationals.mlb.com\/mlb\/gameday\/index.jsp?gid=2012_04_12_cinmlb_wasmlb_1&amp;mode=wrap&amp;c_id=mlb#gid=2012_04_12_cinmlb_wasmlb_1&amp;mode=box<\/p>\n<p>2011: http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/boxes\/WAS\/WAS201103310.shtml<\/p>\n<p>2010: http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/mlb\/gameday\/index.jsp?gid=2010_04_05_phimlb_wasmlb_1&amp;mode=wrap<\/p>\n<p>2009: http:\/\/washington.nationals.mlb.com\/news\/wrap.jsp?ymd=20090413&amp;content_id=4251894&amp;vkey=wrapup2005&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;team=home&amp;c_id=was<\/p>\n<p>2008: http:\/\/washington.nationals.mlb.com\/news\/wrap.jsp?ymd=20080330&amp;content_id=2467836&amp;vkey=wrapup2005&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;team=home&amp;c_id=was<\/p>\n<p>2007: http:\/\/washington.nationals.mlb.com\/news\/wrap.jsp?ymd=20070402&amp;content_id=1874785&amp;vkey=wrapup2005&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;team=home&amp;c_id=was<\/p>\n<p>2006: http:\/\/washington.nationals.mlb.com\/news\/wrap.jsp?ymd=20060411&amp;content_id=1394878&amp;vkey=wrapup2005&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;team=home&amp;c_id=was<\/p>\n<p>2005: http:\/\/nationals.mlb.com\/news\/wrap.jsp?ymd=20050414&amp;content_id=1015977&amp;vkey=wrapup2004&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;c_id=was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(posting this after updating for 2013&#8217;s home opener) Here&#8217;s some fun trivia that I&#8217;ve collected over the years related to the Nats home opener Attendance and attendance records at the stadium in general. Nats Trivia: capacity of Nats park? &#8211; 41,888 at opening &#8211; 41,546 in 2010 &#8211; 41,506 in 2011 &#8211; 41,487 in 2012 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1016],"class_list":["post-6478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral","tag-todd-boss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6478"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6484,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478\/revisions\/6484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}