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The Nationals needed Erick Fedde to lead them to a victory over one of the hottest pitchers in baseball as Jeff Samardzija had been nearly unbeatable for a month with a 2.09 ERA in July, but the Nats ran up Samardzija’s pitch count to 98 pitches and knocked him out after 4.0 innings en route to a 4-0 shutout. Fedde went 6.0 scoreless innings and did not issue a walk or give up a run, and the Nats new-look bullpen took care of the final 3.0 innings to preserve the shutout. The Nationals offense did it via a lot of walks and very little situational hitting. Continue reading
We recently upgraded our comment system to improve reliability, performance, and long-term control, and we’re currently running both systems during the transition. This shift moves us away from an external service to a system we run and control directly—meaning we own the content and can continue improving it over time. We’ve also reduced the comment refresh delay from about 30 seconds to 10 seconds, making it much closer to real-time.
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