Nationals victorious in stadium debut
Published 3/30/2008 by Michael Phillips at Major League Baseball News
Since baseball moved back to Washington in 2005, there have been numerous ceremonies to mark different milestones. They were all just practice.
On Saturday, residents of the nation's capital saw what they have waited so long for: baseball in a baseball stadium. The Nationals defeated the Orioles, 3-0, in front of about 25,000, almost all of whom were seeing Nationals Park for the first time.
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