Nationals vs Orioles, Game 3

[zimm_da_kid]

The plan should be to beat Kendrick and Minor and split against Roy/Hamels and Beachy/Hudson.

our plan should be to win them all.

[RL04]

Had to attend CTCL College Fair with daughter so missed the game.

Verizon FiOS listing says the repeat is on now on MASN, but it's actually ESPN stuff.

Anyone know when/if the game will be re-broadcast tonight?

[Mr Clean]

Anyone know who was voted MVP today on that Baltimore promo?

[PC]

Anyone know who was voted MVP today on that Baltimore promo?

Xavier Avery.

[Mr Clean]

Xavier Avery.

Figures. Typical Baltimore.

[Baseball is Life]

Straus pulled because of arm stiffness...bicep "...probably scares me the least" says Davey

Dan Kolko ‏@masnKolko
Again, Strasburg said it wasn't an issue with his bicep. Just overall fatigue. He & Davey both expect Strasburg to make his next start #Nats

[aspenbubba]

$37 per K makes me sick. All the DC toyota dealers couldn't combine to multiply that by 100. Might as well be 37 cents. I wish MASN would refuse publicity for such a poor gesture.

The 37.00 is Strasburgs number and he is a spokesman for Toyota.

[aspenbubba]

Well I guess that's a textbook case of bringing in your garbage reliever to close out a blowout.

Perry is the garbage reliever and he will be the first to go when Wang comes back.

[Kevrock]

Total disaster getting to the game today. Traffic sucked on every road and around the park.

Great game though, I missed the three runs by the Orioles because of the traffic so it was all highs for me. Strasburg's home run and curtain call was one of the cooler moments I've enjoyed at the park.

[spidernat]

Had to attend CTCL College Fair with daughter so missed the game.

Verizon FiOS listing says the repeat is on now on MASN, but it's actually ESPN stuff.

Anyone know when/if the game will be re-broadcast tonight?

If the birds had won this game you can bet your ass they would be replaying it right now.

[Slateman]

MASN conspiracy theory

[RL04]

If the birds had won this game you can bet your ass they would be replaying it right now.

 

[Baseball is Life]

Strasburg's home run and curtain call was one of the cooler moments I've enjoyed at the park.

Yes, indeed. One of the better atmospheres yet. A full house is always fun, especially when the home team is smacking the ball all over the yard.

[OldChelsea]

Comparative dates on which the Nationals notched their 24th win, each season:

2012 - 20th May (41st match of season)
2005 - 22nd May (44th match)
2010 - 27th May (48th match)
2008 - 30th May (56th match)
2011 - 1st June (55th match)
2006 - 3rd June (56th match)
2007 - 6th June (59th match)
2009 - 4th July (79th match)

[PANatsFan]

The 37.00 is Strasburgs number and he is a spokesman for Toyota.

I am challenging them to give $3700 per strikeout. They can afford it.

[OldChelsea]

Is this officially the most runs we've scored in a game this year?

It is - our high prior to today was 7 (in five different matches)

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Today's announced attendance of 41,918 is the fourth highest in Nats Park history, although I did notice a few no-shows in the TBSITH neighbourhood and elsewhere.

[Lintyfresh85]

I am challenging them to give $3700 per strikeout. They can afford it.

I just think of it as 37 is better than nothing.

[RobDibblesGhost]

It is - our high prior to today was 7 (in five different matches)

We got 8 runs this past Monday against San Diego.

[OldChelsea]

We got 8 runs this past Monday against San Diego.

So we did (the ESPN.com Nats fixtures/results list for this season does align rather oddly, at least on my browser, so I must have missed it)...anyway, our output today is still a season high.

[MarquisDeSade]

I am challenging them to give $3700 per strikeout. They can afford it.

Hope in one hand and crap in the other.

[Sharp]

I am challenging them to give $3700 per strikeout. They can afford it.

I don't know, can they?  Our starters rack up quite a lot of strikeouts.

[imref]

Papa John's 50% off tomorrow - NATS50 as the promo code.

[zimm_da_kid]

Strasburg's home run and curtain call was one of the cooler moments I've enjoyed at the park.

i was at tommy milone's debut when he hit a bomb on the first pitch he saw.  that was so epic

[PANatsFan]

I don't know, can they?  Our starters rack up quite a lot of strikeouts.

What do you think the collective profit of the DC area Toyota dealers is in a given year. Remember, they get a tax break for it, too. At least give $370 or even $137.

[Sharp]

What do you think the collective profit of the DC area Toyota dealers is in a given year. Remember, they get a tax break for it, too. At least give $370 or even $137.

The Nats pitchers have 349 strikeouts already on the year.  Extrapolate that out another three times and you get 1396 strikeouts.  That's over $50,000 at $37 per strikeout; at $3700 like you suggested it would be over  $5 million.  I understand that $37/K sounds really cheap but over the course of the season it adds up to a very nice donation, and I'm not sure the local Toyota dealers can afford to spend $5 million (or $500k) on a single promotion like this.  Maybe $137 per strikeout, which would have been a donation of over $190,000, might have been doable, I guess, but I don't think this is a mean-spirited effort.