Tag Archives: Ryan Zimmerman

Days of Rest – Why Only for Pitchers? Could the Howie system work for Zim?

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

Baseball analytics cover most anything you want to analyze including days-of-rest statistics if you can crunch the numbers yourself for position players. If you go to the Baseball-Reference and look at the splits for pitchers, you see their numbers broken … Continue reading →

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Red Carpet event for the premiere of the 2019 World Series documentary

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Andrew Lang

The premiere showing of the 2019 World Series documentary from Shout! Factory Productions was debuted last night to a sold-out crowd of 3,000 at The Anthem in Washington, D.C. This red carpet event was attended by Ryan Zimmerman and general manager … Continue reading →

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The miracle run is complete! The Washington Nationals are World Series champs!

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

If you believe in crazy proclamations, the departing free agent stood in Clearwater Florida during Spring Training and talked about bringing a title back to D.C., and it has now happened. The miracle run is now complete. The Nationals went … Continue reading →

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Game #6 World Series marks the first Game 6 in Nats history!

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

The Nationals enter their fourth elimination game of this postseason, and their first Game 6 in team history. The team will feature the same lineup as their first two wins in Houston with Asdrubal Cabrera at second base and Howie … Continue reading →

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The #Nats take a 2-0 lead in the World Series and now have home field advantage!

Posted on October 24, 2019 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

At the end of the 6th inning of this second game of the World Series, this was a pitcher’s duel between Justin Verlander and Stephen Strasburg who were knotted in a 2-2 game. As Verlander was tiring, he got ambushed … Continue reading →

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Juan Soto makes his presence felt in his first World Series!

Posted on October 22, 2019 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

The Washington Nationals were given no chance to win tonight. We had heard all of the statistics that the analysts were coming up with to make it seem like a waste of time to show up since Gerrit Cole had … Continue reading →

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Game #1 World Series; A marquee matchup, but little respect for the Nats!

Posted on October 22, 2019 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

The Washington Nationals went into the morning of May 24th with a 0.1% chance of making the postseason. They defied the odds as the Nats earned a Wild Card berth, and they have found themselves as underdogs during each series … Continue reading →

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Stephen Strasburg’s gem takes Nats starters to 25 2/3 scoreless! Nats up 3-0!

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

This advertised pitcher’s duel became one-sided as the Nats smashed Jack Flaherty and knocked him out at the 4.0 inning mark with 4 earned runs, and Stephen Strasburg went 7.0 innings on 117 pitches of baseball with no earned runs, … Continue reading →

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Game #3 NLCS The heavyweight matchup of Flaherty vs. Strasburg; Robles is back!

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

Since the NLDS games were decided on Wednesday, we have known that this game would matchup two of the hottest NL pitchers in Stephen Strasburg and the righty Jack Flaherty. Tonight of course is the first home game in the … Continue reading →

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“Cy” Anibal Sanchez throws the one-hit near-no-no! Nats win 2-0!

Posted on October 11, 2019 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

The Nationals shocked the Cardinals to take game one of this NLCS behind a near-no-hitter from Anibal Sanchez that ended with two outs in the 8th inning. Sanchez cruised in this game, and made big pitches when he had to. … Continue reading →

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