

(By Alex Brandon / AP)

Before the Nats began play on Jayson Werth garden gnome night, Scott and I ran into Tracy Tran near Shake Shack.

I was in the process of attempting to acquire cheap pregame Miller Lites, which seemed like a fine mission. But Tran had a better mission: He was in the process of posing for photos with just about everyone in Nats Park, owing to the fact that he was dressed up like a human representation of a Jayson Werth garden gnome.

Tran is a longtime Post Sports reader, a longtime D.C. sports fan and a longtime believer in quirky fan behavior. He wrote about the night on his blog:

I left my house at 9AM to pick up my gnome costume in Ballston. I decided to go with the gnome costume for only one purpose: win the Nats Fan of the Game for the third time in four tries (and the $50 Harris Teeter gift card)…. A lot of people were taking a lot of pictures of me. I was stunned by the amount of picture requests….Picture requests continued when I got into the park…. As for my quest to win the Fan of the Game for the third time: it was an all-kids edition, so I had no shot (if you’re wondering, my only loss was to a kid last year. Stupid kids! I kid, I kid.)

Well, all wrongs are eventually righted when it comes to quirky fan behavior, and this one was as well. Tran went to Monday night’s Nats game, another game that Scott and I both attended as fans. And this time, he won the fan of the game.

ALSO HE WENT ON THE FIELD AND JAYSON WERTH TUGGED ON HIS GARDEN GNOME BEARD AHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHDFHLKSDJFKLSDFJ.

Good photo, that one.

(Via DC Sports Nexus)