by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
Matt Belisle will be placed on the 15 day DL with a calf strain, and the Nationals recall lefty Sammy Solis from Triple-A Syracuse.
Gio Gonzalez and righty Jeremy Hellickson face-off in the 2nd game of this 3 game series in tonight’s 7:05pm start.
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The Nats had plenty of chances to score tonight, and Max Scherzer’s final stat line looked better than the actual pitching performance. Scherzer gave up 3 runs over 6 innings, and the bullpen gave up 1 run on a catchable ball at the wall that Michael Taylor could not get in his glove. Sometimes that is the way it goes.
Anthony Rendon left 4 men on base and Ryan Zimmerman left 5 men on base, and that defines the problem we have seen. Michael Taylor got on base 3 of his 5 plate appearances and did his job tonight which is getting on base.
The game ended on a Bryce Harper groundout with Anthony Rendon on 1st base.
Same, @Bharper3407. Same. https://t.co/5KkQ8tZHD3 pic.twitter.com/cnaa5bApeZ
— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) April 27, 2016
Matt Belisle was pulled from the game with a calf injury. He will be evaluated further.
The Washington Nationals got a much needed day off yesterday, and we don’t know what walk-off hero Chris Heisey did with his day off. Bryce Harper on the other hand was visiting museums on the national mall as he was taking selfies in the Smithsonian. Today’s starting pitcher Max Scherzer was uploading video and photos from one of his diving expeditions and Dusty as we know was on the radio doing what Dusty likes to do: Talking Nats.
Tonight’s 7:05pm match-up features Cy Young winner Max Scherzer and 23 year old righty pitcher Vincent Velasquez who was a 2nd round pick of the Houston Astros and was traded in the Ken Giles deal in the off-season. This will be Velasquez’s 11th career start. He has upgraded his fastball to average 95mph and can dial that up to 98. That is his main pitch and will throw a slow curve at 80mph and will throw a few sliders and changeups.
Scherzer has to get back on track tonight and also remember that 10 days ago Scherzer pitched 5 hit baseball giving up 1 run to the Phillies in an 8-1 win. Continue reading
This was the first walk-off HR in Chris Heisey’s career! He did it for the Nats in Spring Training one month ago, but this is the first regular season walk-off of his 54 career home runs.
This was also the 1st Nats Walk-Off of the 2016 season, and is destined for Nats Classic reruns! 6-5 win and the Nats get the 14-4 record that ties the 2012 record for best starts by a team in Nats history. The Nats got great relief pitching from Matt Belisle, Felipe Rivero, Jonathan Papelbon, Yusmeiro Petit and Oliver Perez in relief of Stephen Strasburg.
The walk-off HR by Chris Heisey was just part of the highlights which included a 9th inning game tying pinch-hit HR by Bryce Harper against closer Kevin Jepson. The game started with a lead-off HR from Matt den Dekker. Wilson Ramos with the clutch 2 run double as the Nats were behind by 3 runs. The craziest play was the bunt from Oliver Perez that got thrown away and scored Danny Espinosa to tie the game in the 15th inning at 5-5 before Heisey won it in the 16th inning.
Let’s enjoy Bryce’s HR again (and again).
And Heisey’s WO HR again (and again, and agains, and again . . .)
The Nats officially (unless they change Oliver Perez’s bunt to a single) only tallied Wilson Ramos’ double as the only hit all day with runners in scoring position. In case you lost count, the Nats were 1-16 officially and it is possible they change Perez’s bunt to a hit with an error on the Twins catcher John Ryan Murphy.
On the Bryce Harper watch, he increased his MLB leading HR count to 9 and RBIs to 23.
If you left early, you missed a classic! If you missed this story on Chris Heisey, give it a read!
The season yesterday officially moved passed the 1/10th completion mark as people are embracing the “Dusty Effect” that Talk Nats proposed in early February and while it is too early to make bold assumptions on the season, the Nats enter today’s game at a Major League best record of 13-4. The term “Dusty Effect” is now catching on. Continue reading
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