TODAY'S NATIONALS/GIANTS GAME: 9 - 3
Wowie zowie, how the Nationals (not surprisingly) shamed the Giants in their own gleaming ball park.
Cubs' pitcher LaTroy Hawkins sent a memo to San Francisco's lame-o bullpen which read as follows: "By all means, my friends, load the bases as often as you can, preferably with only one or two outs. Is it payday, yet?"
With the exception of the Brobdingnagian Jon Rauch (WSH), pitching was chaotic all around. Noah Lowry (SF), as adorable as he is, has yet to win a game, allowing 4 runs in the 3rd. Nationals starter Tomo Ohka pitched about as well as I would if you gave me, oh, two hours to practice. Thankfully, Frank Robinson had the cojones to pull Ohka and install Rauch, who pitched beautifully, containing the Giants for 3 skin-tight innings.
Of the Giants' pitchers...all 6 of them...what can I say? They blew it. Hard. On his very first pitch, San Francisco native Tyler Walker, the first of 5 relievers, hit Jose Guillen. Hard. Worshippers of the Cloud of Doom, Jim Brower and Scott Eyre, were so bad tonight that, combined, they pitched to only 3 hitters...in the very inning that the Nationals scored 5 runs.
This game was an amazing example of how much control pitchers do and do not have over the outcome of a game.
Tomorrow, I have seats in the (Bonds Squad) left-field bleachers. D.C.'s ERA wunderkind John Patterson takes on Jason Schmidt, the Giants' creaky star starter (um, we're still waiting for that warp-speed fastball). Should be fun.
Cubs' pitcher LaTroy Hawkins sent a memo to San Francisco's lame-o bullpen which read as follows: "By all means, my friends, load the bases as often as you can, preferably with only one or two outs. Is it payday, yet?"
With the exception of the Brobdingnagian Jon Rauch (WSH), pitching was chaotic all around. Noah Lowry (SF), as adorable as he is, has yet to win a game, allowing 4 runs in the 3rd. Nationals starter Tomo Ohka pitched about as well as I would if you gave me, oh, two hours to practice. Thankfully, Frank Robinson had the cojones to pull Ohka and install Rauch, who pitched beautifully, containing the Giants for 3 skin-tight innings.
Of the Giants' pitchers...all 6 of them...what can I say? They blew it. Hard. On his very first pitch, San Francisco native Tyler Walker, the first of 5 relievers, hit Jose Guillen. Hard. Worshippers of the Cloud of Doom, Jim Brower and Scott Eyre, were so bad tonight that, combined, they pitched to only 3 hitters...in the very inning that the Nationals scored 5 runs.
This game was an amazing example of how much control pitchers do and do not have over the outcome of a game.
Tomorrow, I have seats in the (Bonds Squad) left-field bleachers. D.C.'s ERA wunderkind John Patterson takes on Jason Schmidt, the Giants' creaky star starter (um, we're still waiting for that warp-speed fastball). Should be fun.
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