{"id":8724,"date":"2014-04-07T08:29:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T12:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=8724"},"modified":"2014-12-18T09:17:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T14:17:41","slug":"nats-trivia-home-opener-and-record-attendance-figures-2014-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=8724","title":{"rendered":"Nats Trivia: Home Opener and Record Attendance Figures 2014 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some useless trivia related to the Nats home openers, now that we have the Nats 10th home opener in the books.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nats Trivia: capacity of Nats park?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>41,888 at opening<\/li>\n<li>41,546 in 2010<\/li>\n<li>41,506 in 2011<\/li>\n<li>41,487 in 2012<\/li>\n<li>41,418 in 2013<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/travel\/stadium\/_\/s\/mlb\/id\/20\/nationals-park\">41,506<\/a> for 2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interesting how the capacity has slightly decreased each year but jumped for this year.\u00a0 Do we know where they&#8217;re adding\/removing seats? \u00a0 By the way, RFK capacity: 45,596 per wikipedia\/ballparks.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nats All-time Record attendance<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>45,966 10\/12\/12 game 5 2012 NLDS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other\/Previous Attendance Records<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>45,274 Opening Day 2013 (new and current Regular Season record for Nats park)<\/li>\n<li>45,017 10\/10\/12 first home playoff game<\/li>\n<li>44,685 8\/20\/11 vs Phillies (longer standing Nats park record)<\/li>\n<li>41,985 6\/24\/09 vs Boston. (Nats reg-season record standard bearer for a while in the new stadium)<\/li>\n<li>45,157 Fathers day 2006 vs Yankees (long standing Regular season Record)<\/li>\n<li>45,596 RFK franchise opener (long standing franchise attendance record)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Opening Day Attendances and weather through the years<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2014:\u00a042,834 (1:05 Friday game, 50s and overcast)<\/li>\n<li>2013: 45,274 (1:05 Monday game, 60 and beautiful)<\/li>\n<li>2012: 40,907 (1:05 Thursday game 56, partly cloudy)<\/li>\n<li>2011: 39,055 (1:05 Thursday game, 41 degrees and overcast)<\/li>\n<li>2010: 41,290 (1pm game Monday, beautiful weather 80s and sunny): this was the &#8220;Phillies invasion&#8221; game.<\/li>\n<li>2009: 40,386 (3pm game on a Monday, chilly 53degr and overcast).<\/li>\n<li>2008: 39,389 (season and stadium opener), 8pm Sunday night, nat&#8217;l tv, clear but very cold.<\/li>\n<li>2007: 40,389 (in rfk, 1pm game vs Florida, 72degrees)<\/li>\n<li>2006: 40,516 (in rfk, Tuesday day game vs Mets, 72degr and sunny)<\/li>\n<li>2005: 45,596 (in rfk, debut of entire franchise, 62degr and clear, evening game)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Opening Day Box Scores and Results<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nats are 4-6 in their home openers now since moving to Washington, and they&#8217;re just 2-6 in non-stadium openers.\u00a0 Just one starter has thrown more than one home opener for the Nats: <strong>Livan Hernandez<\/strong>. \u00a0When Livan gets elected to Cooperstown, I hope he&#8217;s wearing the curly W. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2014: <a href=\"http:\/\/washington.nationals.mlb.com\/mlb\/gameday\/index.jsp?gid=2014_04_04_atlmlb_wasmlb_1&amp;mode=box&amp;c_id=was#gid=2014_04_04_atlmlb_wasmlb_1&amp;mode=box\">mlb.com<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/boxes\/WAS\/WAS201404040.shtml\">b-r.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Braves d Nats 2-1.\u00a0 WP: Luis Avilan.\u00a0 LP: Tyler Clippard.\u00a0 (Starters: Jordan Zimmermann and David Hale).<\/li>\n<li>2013: <a href=\"http:\/\/washington.nationals.mlb.com\/mlb\/gameday\/index.jsp?gid=2013_04_01_miamlb_wasmlb_1&amp;mode=recap&amp;c_id=was#gid=2013_04_01_miamlb_wasmlb_1&amp;mode=box\">mlb.com<\/a>\u00a0or<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/boxes\/WAS\/WAS201304010.shtml\"> b-r.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Nats d Marlins 2-0.\u00a0 WP: Stephen Strasburg.\u00a0 LP: Ricky Nolasco<\/li>\n<li>2012: <a href=\"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\">mlb.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Nats d Reds 3-2.\u00a0 WP: Craig Stammen. LP: Alfredo Simon (Starters: Gio Gonzalez and Mat Latos)<\/li>\n<li>2011: <a href=\"http:\/\/washington.nationals.mlb.com\/mlb\/gameday\/index.jsp?gid=2011_03_31_atlmlb_wasmlb_1&amp;mode=wrap&amp;c_id=mlb#gid=2011_03_31_atlmlb_wasmlb_1&amp;mode=box\">mlb.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Braves d Nats 2-0.\u00a0 WP: Derek Lowe.\u00a0 LP: Livan Hernandez<\/li>\n<li>2010: <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/mlb\/gameday\/index.jsp?gid=2010_04_05_phimlb_wasmlb_1&amp;mode=wrap\">mlb.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Phillies d Nats 11-1.\u00a0 WP: Roy Halladay.\u00a0 LP: John Lannan<\/li>\n<li>2009: <a href=\"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\">mlb.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Phillies d Nats 9-8.\u00a0 WP: Jamie Moyer.\u00a0 LP: Saul Rivera (Nats Starter: Daniel Cabrera)<\/li>\n<li>2008: <a href=\"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\">mlb.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Nats d Braves 3-2.\u00a0 WP: Jon Rauch.\u00a0 LP: Peter Moylan (Starters: Tim Hudson and Odalis Perez)<\/li>\n<li>2007: <a href=\"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\">mlb.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Marlins d Nats 9-2.\u00a0 WP: Dontrelle Willis.\u00a0 LP: John Patterson<\/li>\n<li>2006: <a href=\"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\">mlb.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Mets d Nats 7-1.\u00a0 WP: Brian Bannister.\u00a0 LP: Ramon Ortiz<\/li>\n<li>2005: <a href=\"http:\/\/nationals.mlb.com\/news\/wrap.jsp?ymd=20050414&amp;content_id=1015977&amp;vkey=wrapup2004&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;c_id=was\">mlb.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Nats beat Arizona 5-3. WP: Livan Hernandez. LP: Javier Vazquez<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some useless trivia related to the Nats home openers, now that we have the Nats 10th home opener in the books. Nats Trivia: capacity of Nats park?\u00a0 41,888 at opening 41,546 in 2010 41,506 in 2011 41,487 in 2012 41,418 in 2013 41,506 for 2014 Interesting how the capacity has slightly decreased each year [&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":[222,2383,98,1256,2304,787,773,385,170,341,39,517,865,43,41,966,586,1742,554,1671,778,119,1207,38,219,128],"class_list":["post-8724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral","tag-alfredo-simon","tag-brian-bannister","tag-craig-stammen","tag-daniel-cabrera","tag-david-hale","tag-derek-lowe","tag-dontrelle-willis","tag-gio-gonzalez","tag-jamie-moyer","tag-javier-vazquez","tag-john-lannan","tag-john-patterson","tag-jon-rauch","tag-jordan-zimmermann","tag-livan-hernandez","tag-luis-avilan","tag-mat-latos","tag-odalis-perez","tag-peter-moylan","tag-ramon-ortiz","tag-ricky-nolasco","tag-roy-halladay","tag-saul-rivera","tag-stephen-strasburg","tag-tim-hudson","tag-tyler-clippard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724","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=8724"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10115,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724\/revisions\/10115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}