Posts Tagged ‘Adam LaRoche’

So many walks, so few runs Nats fall to Giants 2-1

WASHINGTON, D.C. — They say that you may see something new in every baseball game.* That was the case yesterday, as the Washington Nationals hosted the San Francisco Giants. The visitors walked 9 Nats and hit 3 of them with pitches, but only gave up a run. The Giants played with fire throughout the game [...]

Nats sweep doubleheader, series over Brewers

Yesterday, Adam Kilgore, the Washington Nationals beat writer for The Post, tweeted that the Nats were at .303 in slugging. Yikes. Perhaps they took it to heart, because by the end of the doubleheader, they had raised it up to .351. That is nothing to brag about and it is only good for 27th [...]

3 days later, a few words about Nats Opening Day 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. — My personal schedule did not allow for any blogging following the 7th D.C. Opening Day of the 21st century which is exactly 7 more than I ever thought we would see.
As many others have pointed out, it was cold and damp. We were seated in section 228 which is kind of misleading. [...]

My 2011 Washington Nationals preview and prediction

I have gone back and forth on the Washington Nationals this offseason. They improved 10 games in 2010, despite a disappointing starting rotation. This season, the best part of 2010’s rotation, Stephen Strasburg, is recovering from Tommy John surgery. However, I expect the rotation to improve even without Strasburg. I expect a bounce-back season from [...]

New Nats 1st baseman Adam LaRoche looks like Bryce Harper, but only during deer season

 
(I grabbed this photo from Nationals Enquirer (with love!) who grabbed it frin BuckCommander.com.)
The Washington Nationals signed free agent 1B Adam LaRoche to a 2 year contract that will pay him at $16 million. They probably overpaid, which Thomas Boswell says is the cost of being cheap in the past. Whatever. As Nationals Enquirer notes, [...]

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