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Yes, it is Labor Day, and it has felt like a laborious task to watch Patrick Corbin for most of this season. The Washington Nationals have two other lefties now in the starting rotation who have bested Corbin, and chances are 99.9% of baseball fans have no idea who Josh Rogers and Sean Nolin are. Both have better ERA’s than the $24 million a year Corbin with his 6.27 ERA entering this game. In fact Rogers and Nolin will make well under $700,000 if they pitch the rest of the month on the Major League side. Continue reading →

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Can the Washington Nationals make it two Curly W’s in a row? The team has been so close in almost every win and in every loss that the team just needs a ball or two to bounce in their direction. Maybe for once the umpires can make a call that goes the Nats way. Continue reading →

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In the second game of this day/night doubleheader, fans who stick around will get treated to a fireworks show after the game. Of course, the Nats hope to put on their own fireworks show by knocking some bombs out of the park. Continue reading →

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Sometimes you don’t need a home run to win a game. The stage was setup perfectly for the birthday boy, Carter Kieboom, last night. One out, the winning run on third base, and all you need at a minimum is a productive out to win the game.

Kieboom whiffed on three pitches to put the scales in favor of the Mets to get out of the jam after they had already blown the save to make it a 2-2 game. It wasn’t like manager Dave Martinez had a better option on his bench with Gerardo Parra, Adrian Sanchez, and Alex Avila as his available bench players.

One of the Nats best comebacks of the season was snuffed out after a Juan Soto home run made the score 2-1 in the ninth inning followed by a Ryan Zimmerman walk, and a Riley Adams double scored the pinch-running Andrew Stevenson who trucked the Mets’ catcher at the plate to jar the ball loose and tie the game.  Continue reading →

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With youth comes mistakes, and you must learn by them. And in this case you must win with them. The youngsters must step up if the Washington Nationals have any chance of winning any more games this season. Even with Juan Soto‘s big game yesterday, it was not enough. The Nats are a season’s worst 55-77 entering this game with 30 left to play. If they cannot win eight more games, it will be a 100 loss season. Think about that for a moment. Continue reading →

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So much for the Washington Nationals playing spoiler. If we didn’t know better, we would think manager Dave Martinez was making moves to fail like leaving in Patrick Corbin in a game that was past the point of getting positive results. The Phillies more than any team have been the recipient of the Nats failures since the day before the trade deadline. If the Phillies win the NL East, manager Joe Girardi should send a “thank you” gift to Martinez.  Continue reading →