Nationals Home Openers and attendance. Nats Trivia: capacity of Nats park? 41,888 in 2010, 41,506 in 2011. Record attendance? 45,966 10/12/12 game 5 2012 nlds 2nd: 45,017 10/10/12 first home playoff game (previous 44,685 8/20/11 vs Phillies. Prev: 41,985 6/24/09 vs Boston). 2012: 40,907 (1:05 thursday game 56, partly cloudy) 2011: 39,055 (1:05 thursday game, 41 degrees and overcast) 2010: 41,290 (1pm game monday, beautiful weather 80s and sunny): phillies invasion 2009: 40,386 (3pm game on a monday, chilly 53degr and overcast). 2008: 39,389 (season and stadium opener), 8pm sunday night, Braves, nat'l tv but cold. 2007: 40,389 (in rfk, 1pm game vs Florida, 72degrees 2006: 40,516 (in rfk, tuesday day game vs Mets, 72degr and sunny) 2005: 45,596 (in rfk, debut of entire franchise, 62degr and clear, evening game). they sold 900 more tickets for this opening day versus last, and could have probably guaranteed those sales based on the weather and Obama regardless. 2012: http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2012_04_12_cinmlb_wasmlb_1&mode=wrap&c_id=mlb#gid=2012_04_12_cinmlb_wasmlb_1&mode=box 2011: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/WAS/WAS201103310.shtml 2010: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2010_04_05_phimlb_wasmlb_1&mode=wrap 2009: http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/news/wrap.jsp?ymd=20090413&content_id=4251894&vkey=wrapup2005&fext=.jsp&team=home&c_id=was 2008: http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/news/wrap.jsp?ymd=20080330&content_id=2467836&vkey=wrapup2005&fext=.jsp&team=home&c_id=was 2007: http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/news/wrap.jsp?ymd=20070402&content_id=1874785&vkey=wrapup2005&fext=.jsp&team=home&c_id=was 2006: http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/news/wrap.jsp?ymd=20060411&content_id=1394878&vkey=wrapup2005&fext=.jsp&team=home&c_id=was 2005: http://nationals.mlb.com/news/wrap.jsp?ymd=20050414&content_id=1015977&vkey=wrapup2004&fext=.jsp&c_id=was