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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #350: June 11, 2011, 11:13:40 PM »
RT @MarkZuckerman: 5 of the #Nats last 8 wins have been by a score of 2-1.

lol

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #351: June 11, 2011, 11:14:50 PM »
haha wow

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #352: June 11, 2011, 11:15:22 PM »
RT @MarkZuckerman: 5 of the #Nats last 8 wins have been by a score of 2-1.

lol


Like I said weeks ago ... like watching the 1960s Dodgers.

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #353: June 11, 2011, 11:23:16 PM »

Like I said weeks ago ... like watching the 1960s Dodgers.


it's like watching two teams that are carbon copies of each other.

Zuck notes that the Nats have a grand total of "0" errors on this 10 game road-swing.

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #354: June 11, 2011, 11:23:21 PM »

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #355: June 11, 2011, 11:24:41 PM »
it's like watching two teams that are carbon copies of each other.

Zuck notes that the Nats have a grand total of "0" errors on this 10 game road-swing.
Pretty remarkable. Best defensive club we have ever had.

Where are we ranked?

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #356: June 11, 2011, 11:26:13 PM »
Give Lannan a little credit too. 3.60 ERA on the season now.

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #357: June 11, 2011, 11:26:30 PM »
Bixler was sick tonight, ill give it up.

John Lannan has without a doubt been a better man than ill ever be for the last month and a half.

Loved the way we swung the bats tonight even though there weren't many hits to show for.

Clippard/storen are automatic, coffey was solid too.

Great win tonight...let's finish the road trip over .500 and come back home 30-36.

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #358: June 11, 2011, 11:27:55 PM »
Give Lannan a little credit too. 3.60 ERA on the season now.

So many people on here have crap on him over the years for no reason.  He is what he is a solid #4/#5.  I hope he's in DC for a long, long, long time.

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #359: June 11, 2011, 11:29:26 PM »
A lot of teams would love to have Lannan at the back end of the rotation. He is doing a solid job.

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #360: June 11, 2011, 11:30:18 PM »
Our middle infield defense is sick.

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #361: June 11, 2011, 11:36:46 PM »
Pretty remarkable. Best defensive club we have ever had.

Where are we ranked?
If you go by (1-BABIP), which is a measure of turning balls in play into outs, we are now 9th in MLB, behind some of the likely suspects, but that includes our awful fielding start.  I can't find monthly splits, but I'm guessing since the start of May we have to be top 5.

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #362: June 11, 2011, 11:43:34 PM »
the only thing that could top a win tomorrow is leaving Stairs back in San Diego.

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #363: June 11, 2011, 11:58:53 PM »
If you go by (1-BABIP), which is a measure of turning balls in play into outs, we are now 9th in MLB, behind some of the likely suspects, but that includes our awful fielding start.  I can't find monthly splits, but I'm guessing since the start of May we have to be top 5.

Solid analysis as usual JCA

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #364: June 11, 2011, 11:59:45 PM »
the only thing that could top a win tomorrow is leaving Stairs back in San Diego.

No lie I thought he had a sure thing double in gap tonight.

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #365: June 12, 2011, 12:02:50 AM »
the only thing that could top a win tomorrow is leaving Stairs back in San Diego.

He looked even more useless in person.

Two in a row! Hammonds, I'm handing off a winning streak to you. Don't freak it up! :)

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #366: June 12, 2011, 12:04:44 AM »
Also, Riggleman put in Briyan Nixler tonight in LF. It was awesome

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #367: June 12, 2011, 07:36:07 AM »
Comparative dates on which the Nats notched their 29th win, each season:

2005 - 3rd June (55th match of season)
2010 - 9th June (60th match)
2006 - 9th June (62nd match)
2011 - 11th June (65th match)
2007 - 14th June (66th match)
2008 - 15th June (71st match)
2009 - 25th July (97th match)

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Good show, winning two at San Diego for the first time ever as Nationals and for the first time by the combined Expos/Nats franchise since 2001...dare we hope for a win today to produce (1) the first series win at San Diego since that year, (2) our first 3-match winning streak since 31st/1st/2nd May/June, and (3)  our first 3-match away winning streak since 27th/28th/30th April 2010?

...or am I getting a bit too far ahead of myself?

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #368: June 12, 2011, 08:45:25 AM »

Everyone is entitled to their own taste of course but FWIW I think the block W is pretty dull and ugly and represents the Senators.

The Senators are gone, folks.


No. They were Nationals then, and everybody also called that team the Senators. It's been so since the 1880s...teams often called the Nationals, and the fans routinely call them the Senators. Always Nats for short.

In fact, I have a 1952 Topps baseball card for Mickey Grasso, who was my favorite player. I was four, so I can't explain why I was fascinated by Grasso, except that it fit with Mickey Vernon (two-time AL batting champ for the Nats), Mickey Mantle, Mickey McDermott (Yankee and then Washington pitcher).

The team was officially the Nationals. Grasso's card identifies him as a catcher for the Senators.

It's a Washington habit...like the way the city's second river is pronounced "Ana-cos-cha", while new-comers (like NPR reporters) call it the "Ana-cos-tee-ya". Or the way the city's name is pronounced "Warsh-nin", rather than "Wash-ing-ton".

Finally, the team needs to connect with Washington's baseball tradition. Cecil Travis played on that 1936 team, which was managed by Bucky Harris. You won't find a better SS ever in the AL. A legend who would be in the HoF except that he became a war-hero.

Look at http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/travice01.shtml
Think: he's part of our tradition.

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #369: June 12, 2011, 09:37:32 AM »
If you go by (1-BABIP), which is a measure of turning balls in play into outs, we are now 9th in MLB, behind some of the likely suspects, but that includes our awful fielding start.  I can't find monthly splits, but I'm guessing since the start of May we have to be top 5.

We are 17th in May and tied for 1st in June with the Rays.

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #370: June 12, 2011, 11:07:03 AM »
No. They were Nationals then, and everybody also called that team the Senators. It's been so since the 1880s...teams often called the Nationals, and the fans routinely call them the Senators. Always Nats for short.

In fact, I have a 1952 Topps baseball card for Mickey Grasso, who was my favorite player. I was four, so I can't explain why I was fascinated by Grasso, except that it fit with Mickey Vernon (two-time AL batting champ for the Nats), Mickey Mantle, Mickey McDermott (Yankee and then Washington pitcher).

The team was officially the Nationals. Grasso's card identifies him as a catcher for the Senators.

In fact I was somewhat surprised to find, in an edition of the Baseball Encyclopedia many years ago, that AL Senators Version 1.0 (the ones that became the Twins) did not officially adopt the name 'Senators' till 1957, being Nationals for the full time prior to that...I had always thought it had always been 'Senators'.

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Finally, the team needs to connect with Washington's baseball tradition.[...]

Emphatically agreed...and that has to be more than just putting the old 1924 scoreboard in the Stars and Stripes Club. Occasions like honouring the centennial of Walter Johnson's debut in 2007 and the Homestead Grays in a match against the Pirates some time later were both good, but this club, even though it has no corporate connection with any prior Washington MLB club, can certainly do more than just put some memorabilium in a restricted-access part of the ballpark.

Washington's baseball heritage may not be as starry as that of New York or St Louis, but there are riches therein nonetheless.

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #371: June 12, 2011, 11:43:14 AM »
So many people on here have crap on him over the years for no reason.  He is what he is a solid #4/#5.  I hope he's in DC for a long, long, long time.

He's a great guy and extremely smart. He has a razor-thin margin of error - every pitch needs to be working on a given night, then his smarts take over and the other team is screwed.

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #372: June 12, 2011, 11:54:46 AM »
Give Lannan a little credit too. He's one of my boys.

Fixed.

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #373: June 12, 2011, 12:42:53 PM »
We are 17th in May and tied for 1st in June with the Rays.
where'd you find that - BR?

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Re: Nationals @ Padres, Game 3
« Reply #374: June 12, 2011, 12:54:45 PM »
"The Washington Nationals.... the Senators of Baseball." That was a marketing phrase for several decades. Apparently sometime in the mid 50s, when the Nats wanted to do a some print marketing, the illustrator complained that he could draw a Senator, but not a National, and the name Senators began to be used without reference to Nationals.

The fact that they were in the American League may have played into it.

At least, that's what I read.

No. They were Nationals then, and everybody also called that team the Senators. It's been so since the 1880s...teams often called the Nationals, and the fans routinely call them the Senators. Always Nats for short.

In fact, I have a 1952 Topps baseball card for Mickey Grasso, who was my favorite player. I was four, so I can't explain why I was fascinated by Grasso, except that it fit with Mickey Vernon (two-time AL batting champ for the Nats), Mickey Mantle, Mickey McDermott (Yankee and then Washington pitcher).

The team was officially the Nationals. Grasso's card identifies him as a catcher for the Senators.

It's a Washington habit...like the way the city's second river is pronounced "Ana-cos-cha", while new-comers (like NPR reporters) call it the "Ana-cos-tee-ya". Or the way the city's name is pronounced "Warsh-nin", rather than "Wash-ing-ton".

Finally, the team needs to connect with Washington's baseball tradition. Cecil Travis played on that 1936 team, which was managed by Bucky Harris. You won't find a better SS ever in the AL. A legend who would be in the HoF except that he became a war-hero.

Look at http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/travice01.shtml
Think: he's part of our tradition.