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Washington Nationals
Baseball is an outdoor sport in which a pitcher pitches a hard, fist sized ball to the hitting area of a batter. The batter hits the hard ball with a tapered, smooth, cylindrical bat made up of wood or metal. The batsman scores by running counter-clockwise within the four markers called the bases arranged at the corners of a diamond. Baseball is sometimes called hardball to differentiate it from similar games such as softball.
During the 1969 to 1979 seasons, The National League awarded two expansion franchises for the 1969 season. The cities of Montreal and San Diego became the newest members of the senior circuit. Montreal business executive Charles Bronfman of the Seagram's distilling empire was the front man for the new team. The Expos played the first game in team history against the Mets at Shea Stadium and won it by 11-10 mark.
The Expos played their inaugural game at Olympic Stadium. The attendance of the audience remained an Expos' record for a home opener. The Expos came closer than ever to a division title, finishing second in the National League East to the Pittsburgh Pirates. They had remained in the pennant race until the final series of the season. During the 1980 to 1989 seasons, the Expos again taunted the Montreal baseball fans by maintaining their playoff hopes until the final day of the season, finishing second and one game behind the Philadelphia Phillies.
Chris Speier collected 8 RBI, Runs Batted In against the San Francisco Giants, becoming the only Expos' player in history to have had both an 8 RBI game and to have hit for the cycle during his career. With a 0.331 batting average, Oliver became the first Expos' hitter to win a batting title. In the 1990 to 1999 seasons, the Expos set an attendance record for a mid-week series as they took a three game series from the Braves.
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