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Assistant Head Grounds Keeper Mike Hrivnak airbrushes a post season logo behind the base path between home plate and first base as he and the grounds crew get ready for game 3 at Nationals Park where the Washington Nationals will take on the St. Louis Cardinals in the first round of the Major League Baseball playoffs, Washington, D.C., Monday, October 8, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Assistant Head Grounds Keeper Mike Hrivnak airbrushes a post season logo behind the base path between home plate and first base as he and the grounds crew get ready for game 3 at Nationals Park where the Washington Nationals will take on the St. Louis Cardinals in the first round of the Major League Baseball playoffs, Washington, D.C., Monday, October 8, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Stadium workers Peter Gabauer, right, and Wes Snyder, bottom left, take down a sign to make way for an extra camera platform along the third base stands as crews get ready for game 3 at Nationals Park as the Washington Nationals take on the St. Louis Cardinals in the first round of the Major League Baseball playoffs, Washington, D.C., Monday, October 8, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Head Grounds Keeper John Turnour gets ready for game 3 at Nationals Park where the Washington Nationals will take on the St. Louis Cardinals in the first round of the Major League Baseball playoffs, Washington, D.C., Monday, October 8, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Left to right, Head Grounds Keeper John Turnour, Assistant Grounds Keeper Matt Coates, and Marty Guetting with the grounds crew conduct measurements for the pitching mound as they get ready for game 3 at Nationals Park as the Washington Nationals take on the St. Louis Cardinals in the first round of the Major League Baseball playoffs, Washington, D.C., Monday, October 8, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Marty Guetting with the grounds crew, right, smooths out dirt at home plate as the grounds crew gets ready for game 3 at Nationals Park where the Washington Nationals will take on the St. Louis Cardinals in the first round of the Major League Baseball playoffs, Washington, D.C., Monday, October 8, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Stephen Strasburg celebrated the Nationals NL East championship and is enjoying the playoffs, despite not being allowed to pitch. (Associated Press)
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Washington D.C. Councilmember Yvette Alexander Ward 7, (left) joins Washington Nationals short stop Ian Desmond (second from left) Washington D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown (third from left) William Hall Board of Directors, Washington Convention and Sports Authority (fourth from left) former nationals manager Frank Robinson (fifth from left) Marla Lerner Tanenbaum (sixth from left) Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray (fifth from right) Mike Rizzo Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations and General Manager, Washington Nationals (fourth from right) Washington D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D, third from right) Greg O'Dell President and CEO, Washington Convention and Sports Authority (second from right) and Mickey Fearn Deputy Director, National Park Service (right) as they hoist shovels full of dirt during the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy groundbreaking ceremony at Fort DuPont Park in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, May 31, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Baseball memorabilia is seen on the shelves in the office of Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, at the John A. Wilson Building in Washington, D.C., Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray stands at the plate as he takes for a portrait Brentwood Hamilton Field in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012, where he played baseball as a child. Mayor Gray, a native of the nation's capital, has a life rooted in baseball. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky arrives at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., on Oct. 9, 2012, for sentencing. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Gayle Barnes, a member of the jury that convicted former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, stands Oct. 6, 2012, outside Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa. Sandusky was convicted in June of molesting several boys over a period of years. Barnes, a homemaker and former school district employee, said she thinks a lot about the victims, particularly the eight who testified against Sandusky and provided what she considers the critical evidence of guilt. She said he deserves life in prison. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Joe Amendola, attorney for former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, arrives for a pre-sentencing hearing on Oct. 8, 2012, at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa. Sandusky was scheduled to be sentenced the next day for sexually abusing 10 boys in a scandal that rocked the university and brought down coach Joe Paterno. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Pennsylvania senior Deputy Attorney General Joseph E. McGettigan III speaks with members of the media after a pre-sentencing conference on Oct. 8, 2012, outside the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa. Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was scheduled to be sentenced the next day for sexually abusing 10 boys in a scandal that rocked the university and brought down coach Joe Paterno. (Associated Press)
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Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky arrives at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., on Oct. 9, 2012, after being sentenced to at least 30 years in prison in the child sexual abuse scandal that brought shame to Penn State and led to coach Joe Paterno's downfall. (Associated Press)
