Washington Nationals vs. St. Louis Cardinals, New Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri - May 26, 2007
The game.
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The site of the old Busch Stadium next door.
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Outside the center field area.
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Sidewalk outside right field.
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Inside in right field during BP.
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Cardinals bullpen.
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Nationals bullpen.
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In our seats.
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Getting ready to start.
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First pitch.
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Albert Pujols.
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Scott Rolen.
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Pujols on third, with third base coach Jose Oquendo.
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Dark clouds passing by. A bad sign for things to come.
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Seventh inning stretch, after some lighter rains had started.
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Heavier rain as we move to the 9th.
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The grounds crew is ready to go, but the umpires are trying to get
through to the final out.
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With 2 outs in the 9th, it was raining too hard to continue.
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The grounds crew didn't quite get the tarp on straight.
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Heavy rain outside as we wait.
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They put the smaller home plate and pitchers mound tarps over the
parts of the field that didn't get covered by the tarp.
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When the tarp came off, the field was still a swamp.
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The water dumped from the tarp.
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The home plate lakes.
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They brought out pallet after pallet of the drying agent.
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The center field distance marker reflected in the pond on the warning track.
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Lots of work.
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This was the eventual final line.
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