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In tonight’s game, the Nationals send Max Scherzer to the mound versus right-handed pitcher Aaron Nola of the Phillies.
Scherzer is coming off of a sub-par performance earlier in the week against the Braves when he gave up 4 runs over 6 innings and walked 3 batters to go with 6 hits. Scherzer was pitching in that start on 2 extra days rest and might have been too strong.
The Phillies are a team that Scherzer pitches well against, and you might be thinking that Scherzer is due for an early season gem to follow-up on the great performance that Joe Ross had last night. Continue reading →
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The Nationals take on the Phillies and Jeremy Hellickson who is sporting a 1.54 ERA and a 1-0 record in 2 starts. The Nats will pitch Joe Ross who is coming off a very nice start himself.
All players and coaches today will be sporting the #42 jerseys in honor of Jackie Robinson with no names on the back of the jerseys. MLB has many celebrations for the Robinson legacy which includes multiple video tributes.
With Stephen Strasburg able to pitch yesterday, the Nats have now set the rotation for the weekend with Ross/Hellickson tonight, Scherzer/Nola on Saturday, and Gio/Morton on Sunday.
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It’s official, Bryce Harper has joined the 100 Home Run Club becoming the 8th youngest to reach 100 HRs in MLB history in GRAND style. Bryce had never had a Grand Slam as part of his career 100 HRs which made this 4 times as special plus he did this on him mom’s birthday, and the first MLB HR that Bryce has hit on April 14th. Harper’s manager Dusty Baker told him right after the Home Run, “You got a flair for the dramatic.” Bryce sure does, and he is making baseball fun for himself.
Bryce accomplished this feat with fewer at-bats to reach 100 HRs than Mel Ott, Andruw Jones, Miguel Cabrera and Johnny Bench. Bryce also pushed Ken Griffey Jr. out of the Top 10 list of youngest players to reach 100 home runs.
We spoke after the game with a VP of the Marucci Bat company who made the bat that Bryce hit his 100th HR with and possibly as poetic as the baseball universe aligns, Bryce hit this HR with the exact same CU7 Marucci model that Bryce smashed his 1st HR with. The VP of Sports Marketing for Marucci is Kyle Ourso and he has dealt with Bryce since he was swinging wood bats at the College of Southern Nevada so they have quite the history together. Even back then in 2010, Bryce was swinging the CU7 Marucci model that Ourso hooked him up with which was that classic all black bat with BRYCE HARPER etched in block letters and filled in with white paint and measuring 34/32.
The Washington Nationals wrap up their 4 game series at Nationals Park with the Atlanta Braves. Dusty Baker is waiting to see how Stephen Strasburg is feeling this morning as players arrive in order to fill in his line-up card.
Jayson Werth is also scheduled for a day off; however, we know Jayson has talked himself back into the line-up before and he did hit a booming 2-run HR last night to push the margin of victory to 3 runs in that 3-0 win.
Ryan Zimmerman is due back in the line-up today as well as Anthony Rendon who pinch-hit late for Dusty last night.
For now we have prepared the Stephen Strasburg vs. Braves batters box as well as the Yusmeiro Petit box.
Stay tuned for changes and updates and expect sunny skies and 63°F warm air for 1st pitch at 4:05pm.
After the game, the Nats will most likely bus it up to Philadelphia to start their road trip. Continue reading →
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We learn now that Tanner Roark will start instead of Stephen Strasburg against Matt Wisler. Strasburg was officially scratched the Nationals are reporting due to illness.
This shouldn’t change the Braves line-up as they were preparing for a right-handed pitcher. Roark last pitched on Thursday which was the Nationals’ home opener which means Roark is pitching today on regular rest. Roark threw 99 pitches in that game and was scheduled to pitch tomorrow against the Braves.
The key for Roark is to get off to a good 1st inning and allow his arm motion to be free and easy and be concerned more with movement and location rather than velocity which has put him in trouble in the past. Roark is more of a finesse pitcher than a power pitcher. Does Roark have the ability when he needs it to throw mid-90s gas in a reach-back fastball? Yes, but use it strategically.
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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