‘Nats/MLB 2013’ Archive

John Lannan kind of gets revenge, Nats almost comeback, lose to Phillies in 9th

Here’s my idea for the Washington Nationals season — just score 4 or more runs for Stephen Strasburg, Gio Gonzalez and Jordan Zimmermann start. Take your chances when Ross Detwiler and Dan Haren pitch. Three runs might even be enough for Stras, Gio and Znn.
I’m not going to get into haiku (DC Sports Bog, The [...]

Nats can’t take Cleveland series and now face John Lannan for the first time in Philly

My guest prognosticator, Vince Guerrieri was right — his Cleveland Indians did take their series with my Washington Nationals.
Thus, #Nats haven't driven in a runner via base hit since Thursday: http://t.co/QaAx8VBNeC
— Mark Zuckerman (@ZuckermanCSN) June 17, 2013

That succinctly describes the Nats weekend. Two solid pitching performances by Gio Gonzalez and Stephen Strasburg were wasted, while [...]

2013 Nats vs. Indians Q&A and prediction with Vince Guerrieri

You may remember this week’s guest prognosticator, Vince Guerrieri, from the Redskins vs. Browns game last year. He’s still a newspaper editor in Northern Ohio as well as the author of Ohio Sports Trivia and the upcoming The Blue Streaks and Little Giants: More Than a Century of Sandusky and Fremont Ross Football.. Vince also [...]

Ross Ohlendorf’s big win, Padres sweep of Braves has Nats 6 back

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Princeton man Ross Ohlendorf’s old school windup delivered six innings of one-run ball for the Washington Nationals last night. It was impressive enough to get the day-after embedded video from MLB. We may see more of him this season so we’ll see if that windup means that everybody runs on [...]

Good problem to have – keeping up with the DC/NOVA brewery growth is difficult

Keeping up with the explosive growth of craft brewing in the greater Washington D.C. region is getting hard. Here is my attempt to summarize what’s going on:
NOVA
The Craft Beer Craze Continues: 8 Breweries Opening in NoVA within a Year – Northern Virginia Magazine
Explosion of beer breweries and brew pubs continues in Northern Virginia – State [...]

Nats have 100 games to close 7 game deficit

The Washington Nationals swept a doubleheader on Sunday to take the 3 game series with the Minnesota Twins (take that Calvin Griffith!) and get themselves back to .500. One hundred games remain in the 2013 regular season and the 31-31 Nats probably need to win more than 60 of them to reach the playoffs and [...]

2013 Nats vs. Twins Q&A and prediction with Ball-Wonk

The final American League team for the Washington Nationals to host is, strangely enough, the Minnesota Twins who were called the Washington Senators until Calvin Griffith moved them away. I don’t know much about Twin Cities baseball or Minnesota in general and in fact, prior to meeting this week’s guest prognosticator, I don’t know that [...]

Nats 2013 window is closing, but there is still time

The smoke from Frager’s Hardware hung omniously behind Nationals Park last night as the Washington Nationals feel to the New York Mets 8-1. Dan Haren gave up 3 home runs. When he’s bad, he’s bad and last night he was bad. A splitter that stayed high erased the earlier DC lead and a 10-1 followed.
It [...]

Welp is spelled with a curly W

Welp.
That’s pretty much all Washington Nationals fans are left to say.
Following a series win over the hated Philadelphia Phillies, the Nats could only take 1 from the Baltimore Orioles. Additionally, they endured being scolded by the second-division play-by-play announcer, telecasts featuring the O’s broadcasters, promos, etc. The finished off the final game getting shut [...]

Nats grievances for Thursday, May 30, 2013

The Washington Nationals lost another one to the team they are forced to subsidize, the Baltimore Orioles. I gotta a lot of problems right now!
3. MASN using broadcasters of both teams
I don’t care about the Baltimore angle on the sportscast, I don’t care about promotions at Orioles Park, etc. It is a stupid agreement that [...]

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