by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
The Washington Nationals offense was once again shutout and almost lifeless. The scoreless streak ratcheted up to 21 painful innings without crossing the plate. To lose 1-0 and create no small ball was surprising. But as usual, this team seems to go as James Wood goes. He had one of his worst games of the season last night en route to an 0-4 with three strikeouts. The team is 15-48 when Wood doesn’t drive in a run.
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As I write this on Saturday morning, the Nationals haven’t scored one single run in four days, not since Tuesday. We’ve watched 21 straight innings of baseball without seeing a single guy cross the plate. And this isn’t even the first time this has happened.
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The Washington Nationals start their weekend series tonight in Minnesota, a team with a lineage that began as the original Washington Senators. In fact, Bucky Harris, the unlikely player/manager of the 1924 World Series champion Washington Senators, is still that franchise’s winningest manager in Senators/Twins history with 1,336 wins. Harris made his permanent home in Montgomery County, Maryland like many baseball players back in the day.
The Twins began as Walter Johnson‘s original Washington Senators team when they relocated for the 1961 season when it was Harmon Killebrew’s Senators and the Griffiths relocated them to the L’Étoile du Nord.
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Unfortunately, it wasn’t hard to see this one coming. Sustained success is something that’s eluded the Nationals for the majority of this season, so the idea of sweeping the Reds seemed like a pretty high mountain to climb, despite the solid performances of the past two nights. That being said, there’s still plenty of room to complain about what we just watched because three pitchers have now thrown complete game shutouts against the Nats this season in just 102 games.
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The Washington Nationals might be down to the final start at Nationals Park for pitcher Michael Soroka and a few teammates as the team departs on a road trip after today’s game that will take them to the trade deadline. The Nationals will not play at home again until August 1 when they play the best team in baseball — the Milwaukee Brewers. We will see if Soroka raises his stock today.
While the Nationals won the first two games of this series, the Reds have not been swept in a 3-game series this season. After today’s game, the Nationals have a day-off tomorrow and just 60-games on the schedule. Before they begin a weekend series against the team in Minnesota, remember that the Twins began as Walter Johnson‘s original Washington Senators team until the 1961 season when his Senators and the Griffiths relocated to the L’Étoile du Nord.
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It took a little bit for the Nats to wake up in this one, as they battled the strikeout bug for the early part of this game. But once they got to Chase Burns it was all over. A strong offensive performance was backed by an excellent night from Brad Lord and the bullpen to get them through the finish line tonight.
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The Washington Nationals needed a permanent solution to fill the roster spot vacated by Trevor Williams who went on the 60-day IL with an elbow injury. The team named Brad Lord as the new starter to go back into the role he had held before they moved him to the bullpen. While Lord works back to get his starter’s stamina back, he should pitch around 50-pitches today.
Did you know that the Nats are now 26-14 when James Wood has an RBI? The team is 14-46 with no RBI from Wood. He looked like he got his timing back and was a key in last night’s win.
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At a certain point in tonight’s game, the Washington Nationals had a seven run lead and I found myself genuinely enjoying a Nats performance for the first time in a few weeks. Of course, the moment I said that, the Reds scored five runs and made it a close ballgame. But I should have seen that one coming.
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