Nationals @ Red Sox, Game 1

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

No love for Lidge tonight 

[santanaf]

uhhh, Harper, throw to the right base man.

He's always so anxious to showcase his arm, but every time he rockets it home, he gives up another base and his throw gets further and further off target.

[Lintyfresh85]

Lidge just wanted a save. Greedy SOB.

You can't create your own save situation, unfortunately/fortunately.

[Squab]

Fail, unfortunately. 

At least he's pulling him now. Not going HRod with him.

[Minty Fresh]

I hate Brad Lidge.

[mitlen]

Question  ...  when does it constitute a save?

[PowerBoater69]

uhhh, Harper, throw to the right base man.

The aggressiveness is great on the basepaths but killing us in the field.

[thepointe01]

Lidge should have never started the 9th in his first game back. Stubborn Davey

The walk to Punto killed us. Now their studs are up

Nothing's been killed.  We got this.

[Kevrock]

Harper with the same mistake he always makes.

Moore needs to find the wall first.

Lidge, lol. But his horrible backup on the throw to the plate irked me more.

[santanaf]

Still...

Lidge > H-Rod

H-Rod would have done the same and left with the bases loaded.

[PowerBoater69]

Lidge should have never started the 9th in his first game back. Stubborn Davey

The walk to Punto killed us. Now their studs are up

Hard to believe that the bum was supposed to be our closer at one point.

[santanaf]

Harper with the same mistake he always makes.

Moore needs to find the wall first.

Lidge, lol. But his horrible backup on the throw to the plate irked me more.

He wandered around slowly looking for the ball like an old man for at least 3 seconds.

[welch]

Would Bernadina have had that ball to left? Why is Moore playing the 9th?

[nats2playoffs]

Scoring Summary
                                                                                                             WSH   BOS
2nd   M Aviles doubled to deep center, D Ortiz and R Sweeney scored.   0   2
3rd   R Zimmerman singled to center, D Espinosa scored, B Harper to third.   1   2
3rd   I Desmond doubled to deep right center, B Harper and R Zimmerman scored, M Morse to third.   3   2
4th   D Espinosa hit a ground rule double to deep right center, T Moore scored.   4   2
4th   B Harper homered to right center, D Espinosa scored.   6   2
6th   B Harper singled to left, T Moore scored, B Harper out at second.   7   2
8th   A Gonzalez homered to center.
9th   D Nava doubled to left center, N Punto scored.

Nationals  7
Red Sox   4

[wvuwhat]

- Red Sox shows slightly off-center from CF. NESN never (almost) shows pitch-track equivalent.
- BOSox had LH pitcher, so Espinosa could hit RH...
- FP is OK, from what I have heard. (I've got the Boston broadcast tonight). Sometimes a little too chirpy, and I'm tired of "taters", "the slide piece", and "pardner"

-So, I'm correct in that we're one of the teams that films directly behind the pitcher?  They keep going to that shot after the pitcher and I'm trying to convince friends that this is the shot I'm used to.
-I understand that, but would you have liked Nady or Moore over Lombo before the game?
-I mean, I guess he's alright, but there's a few things he has said that has irked me.

[RobDibblesGhost]

Throw strikes!

[tomterp]

2.)  I should have clarified, earlier tonight before the game I was a little upset he wasn't in the line-up.  But, I am in no way upset about the current outcome.
3.)  Thank you for addressing it.

Any reason you omitted #1?  I figured you all may get the MASN feed out there with the MLB package.

Lombardozzi makes Nady look like Ruth against lefties. 

Ok, small sample sizes and all that, but Nady's hit them better to date, Lombo needs a break every now and then, and we could really use Nady to get something going offensively to fill some of the gap left by Tracy.  Plus, that leaves Lombo available for a potential high-leverage pinch hit opportunity.

And, Davey likes to use the whole roster, as any many should strive to do.

[mitlen]

Would Bernadina have had that ball to left? Why is Moore playing the 9th?

No you didn't.

[Lintyfresh85]

Would Bernadina have had that ball to left? Why is Moore playing the 9th?

If Bernadina was 10 feet tall maybe.

[NatsAllThe Way]

bad feeling

[thepointe01]

Would Bernadina have had that ball to left? Why is Moore playing the 9th?

good question, he shouldn't be out there right now.  Don't know if anyone gets that, but yeah...

[PowerBoater69]

Come on Clipp

[Kentucky_National]

Dammit

[santanaf]

You can't create your own save situation, unfortunately/fortunately.

Probably a good rule.  Maybe Clipp give him $20 to put him in a save situation.

[Tokeydog]

bad feeling