Ken Burns has thrown out the ceremonial first pitch, and we're underway.

• Simply seeing that many fans in the stands at a Nationals game has given me goosebumps. Wonder how Strasburg feels?
• First pitch: fastball inside for a ball. Fans are not happy. Booing, even. What a bust!
  
• McCutchen absolutely crushed a line drive to short. Good thing Ian Desmond got in the way.
• The movement on Strasburg's "slurve' is frightening.
• 96 MPH sinker to Neil Walker. Are you kidding me?!
• Groundball out for Walker. Expect to see a lot of those for the Pirates today.
• 99 MPH on the fastball, 79 MPH on the breaking ball, both to Lastings Milledge.
  
• First major league strikeout. 83 MPH curveball. Absolutely unhittable. Poor Milledge, the kid never stood a chance.
• Three up, three down. Simple formula.
• Strasburg got through the toughest inning: the first of his career. The kid looks unflappable.