Our Jake is working Nats games, following the footsteps of Shirley Povich, Bob Addie, Mo Siegel, and Russ White. (Those are great writers, by the way)
Here are some twitters frim Jake about a Braves relief pitcher with a pitching motion that looks like a balk. The oddest motion I've ever seen.
Jake Russell @_JakeRussell John Gant's delivery is something to admire pic.twitter.com/zQDVNxq7uN Follow Jake Russell @_JakeRussell @_JakeRussell Gant's shaky legs are reminiscent of a newborn baby deer 9:53 PM - 6 Apr 2016
(1) The win over the Phillies, after which Jayson Werth said he had to get the hit because he could see "The DC Strangler" ready to come after him.
(2) Win over the Cubs Wednesday afternoon / evening: tied at 1; Nats take the lead on Drew home run in bottom of the 8th; Cubs get 2-run homer in top of 9th; Nats tie it on Ramos base-hit to score Harper; Cubs take lead in top of 12th; Nats chip away when Danny Espinosa is hit by pitch and steals 2B, driven in on single by Michael A. Taylor; Taylor runs on the pitch to Werth who slugs a drive high off the wall in RC so Taylor scores. Another great interview with Werth. A great game against the almighty Cubs.
“He was at that time the smartest player in the league. We did everything we could to try to eliminate him from the play. We knew if we didn’t neutralize him, then we had less of a chance of winning.” - John Hannah on Chris Hanburger
Burgundy&GoldForever wrote:No Stephen Strasberg ...
He made the team but is playing it safe having just come off the DL and is being replaced by Max.
What I really wonder is would he have made the same decision had he been named the starter for the game in his hometown.
I think Strasburg would have been the starter: either the Mets' "Thor" or Strasburg, and "Thor" was sidelined with a "dead arm". Sounds like Nats management -- Rizzo and Baker -- said something like, "You can make the final decision, but WE don't want you to pitch". When your boss makes that kind of suggestion, it's more like an order...
Matt Williams may not have let him start the ninth and almost certainly would have pulled him after the lead-off homer in the ninth.
A few of us are old enough to remember the pitcher who holds the single-game record of 21 K's: Tom Cheney, Washington Senators, struck out 21 batters from Baltimore, September 12, 1962. Cheney pitched all 16 innings. Here is the Baseball Reference "play-by-play": http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes ... 9120.shtml
Think of all of us 14-year-olds listening with the transistor radio we kept under a pillow...as the game went on and on. I think night games started later back then, since games were usually only about two hours long...16 innings, four hours.
- Nats' catcher Ken Retzer went 0 - for - 7.
- Nats started Ron Stillwell (who?) at 2B, and brought in used Chuck Cottier...who is now an executive with the New New Nationals.
Burgundy&GoldForever wrote:No Stephen Strasberg ...
He made the team but is playing it safe having just come off the DL and is being replaced by Max.
What I really wonder is would he have made the same decision had he been named the starter for the game in his hometown.
I think Strasburg would have been the starter: either the Mets' "Thor" or Strasburg, and "Thor" was sidelined with a "dead arm". Sounds like Nats management -- Rizzo and Baker -- said something like, "You can make the final decision, but WE don't want you to pitch". When your boss makes that kind of suggestion, it's more like an order...
:slateman batsignal:
Wait wrong board
"I said when he retired that Joe Gibbs was the best coach I'd ever faced." - Bill Parcells
Our Redskins had a bad game on Monday night, but the Nats demolished the Mets, 8 - 1. Nine game lead and "magic number" down to 9. Tough game tonight, but Mets announcers warned that the Washington running game (think about that phrase, Coach Gruden!) will try to disrupt Noah "Thor" Syndegaard. "Hitting is timing and good pitching tries to disrupt timing", said Warren Spahn. And a good offense tries to disrupt a pitcher's timing and rhythm, showed Ty Cobb and said Dusty Baker.
Game 4 in the Nats - Dodgers series will be tough. Nats rookie Joe Ross, who was on the DL most of the season, will start against Clayton Kershaw. However, this Nats team is pretty tough, as Jose Lobaton has said. Had injuries all year to important players...would have had Stephen Strasburg pitching to Wilson Ramos yesterday, but still won. The team has heart.
When the odds are sayin You'll never win That's when the grins Should start You gotta have heart!
Some people still believe that Gil Hodges will take us to the World Series...
"That's a clown question, bro" - - - - - - - - - - Bryce Harper, DC Statesman "But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man That he didn't, didn't already have" - - - - - - - - - - Dewey Bunnell, America
