Sometimes you can’t win even when everything falls your way. The Nats had their big game pitcher John Lannan on the mound Saturday night as they were looking for their second win in a row. Facing a slumping Brewers club, things looked promising as it appeared that Lannan’s stuff was on with several early strikeouts on nasty breaking pitches. Then the hits came.
The Nats couldn’t overtake the Brewers despite many chances to score. Lastings Milledge had a rare homer and Elijah Dukes even had a multi hit game. The Nats had runners in scoring position many times but just couldn’t get them around. The Brewers gave them errors, botched double plays and miscommunicated on groundballs. The Nats just couldn’t convert these breaks to runs and lost 2-5.
This afternoon the Nats managed to win despite themselves. The red white and blue blew a 6 run lead in one inning in front of a packed house, in one inning. They had miscommunication on a pop up, they walked lead off hitters, and they couldn’t get a 1-2-3 inning from their bullpen.
With lucky bounces away from the Brewers catcher the Nats were able to score their first and winning runs this afternoon. Despite the ugly play, it was great to see the Nats win on a beautiful memorial day Sunday in front of a packed Nats Park.
The Good:
Elijah Dukes is starting to look like he likes baseball a little bit. On Saturday he recorded a multi hit game, doubling his season total of hits. Today he drew two walks including the one that allowed him to score the game winning run in the bottom of the 9th. As we predicted here on The Nats Blog a few days ago, the injury to Kearns would give Dukes more security in the line up, it appears to be coming true.
Lastings Milledge is killing the ball. So far this series he is 3 for 7 with a homer, a double, and two RBI’s. All his outs have been screamers and in his at bat today before his double h hit about 5 shots in foul territory. He even swiped a bag today.
The Bad:
With lucky bounces away from the Brewers catcher the Nats were able to score their first and winning runs this afternoon. Despite the ugly play, it was great to see the Nats win on a beautiful memorial day Sunday in front of a packed Nats Park.
The Good:
Elijah Dukes is starting to look like he likes baseball a little bit. On Saturday he recorded a multi hit game, doubling his season total of hits. Today he drew two walks including the one that allowed him to score the game winning run in the bottom of the 9th. As we predicted here on The Nats Blog a few days ago, the injury to Kearns would give Dukes more security in the line up, it appears to be coming true.
Lastings Milledge is killing the ball. So far this series he is 3 for 7 with a homer, a double, and two RBI’s. All his outs have been screamers and in his at bat today before his double h hit about 5 shots in foul territory. He even swiped a bag today.
The Bad:
Both starting pitchers, John Lannan and Tim Redding, allowed great starts to turn into poor 
ones by not pitching effectively in late innings. Lannan allowed the long ball and a high pitch count to kick him out in the 5th, and Redding has his usual 6th inning woes. Despite pitching 5 shut out innings, Redding allowed for a 6 run 6th for the Brewers.
The Ugly:
The once renowned bullpen of the Nats has been pitching terribly over the last several days. Soul Rivera got knocked around today, allowing for 3 runs to score, only one of which was attributed to him. Yesterday Hanrahan got rocked in his second inning of work and Jesus Colume allowed his usual homer. With every other part of the team starting to come around, it disappointing to see the bullpen fall behind.
ones by not pitching effectively in late innings. Lannan allowed the long ball and a high pitch count to kick him out in the 5th, and Redding has his usual 6th inning woes. Despite pitching 5 shut out innings, Redding allowed for a 6 run 6th for the Brewers.The Ugly:
The once renowned bullpen of the Nats has been pitching terribly over the last several days. Soul Rivera got knocked around today, allowing for 3 runs to score, only one of which was attributed to him. Yesterday Hanrahan got rocked in his second inning of work and Jesus Colume allowed his usual homer. With every other part of the team starting to come around, it disappointing to see the bullpen fall behind.
1 comment:
this is some of the worst officiating I've seen yet. Between the stolen base call, and some balls/strikes in the 11th, I don't propose replay. I propose death.
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