Nationals @ Cubs, Game 1

[skippy1999]

but it is not nice to see the Nationals held to just two runs by a no-name pitcher.

Isn't it the pitcher's advantage when a team faces them for the first time?

[Truconfidence]

I grew up in Chicago as a White Sox fan, and you'll never convince me that Wrigley Field is anything but a urine-soaked dump that needs to be imploded, filled with drunks who don't know what the score is

It is nice to see Drew Storen pitch effectively even in the face of what might be MLB official perfidy, and it is nice to see Span and Ramos hit home runs, and it is definitely nice to see 2014 Tanner Roark back...but it is not nice to see the Nationals held to just two runs by a no-name pitcher.

They squandered three other chances to score.

[Rich-L]

I grew up in Chicago as a White Sox fan, and you'll never convince me that Wrigley Field is anything but a urine-soaked dump that needs to be imploded, filled with drunks who don't know what the score is

I am sure Cubs' fans might have more to say about "new" Comiskey

It is nice to see Drew Storen pitch effectively even in the face of what might be MLB official perfidy, and it is nice to see Span and Ramos hit home runs, and it is definitely nice to see 2014 Tanner Roark back...but it is not nice to see the Nationals held to just two runs by a no-name pitcher.

Drew's pitching light's out, let's hope he can keep it up. Perfidy, perhaps, but even that's not bothering us at this point (nice word choice, BTW!). Was nice to see Tanner start for sure, and I love 2-1 wins, no matter who's pitching!

[OldChelsea]

[For Friday's result]

Comparative dates on which the Nationals notched their 25th win, each season:

2012 - 21st May (42nd match of season)
2015 - 22nd May (42nd match)
2013 - 24th May (48th match)
2014 - 25th May (50th match)
2010 - 28th May (49th match)
2005 - 29th May (50th match)
2011 - 2nd June (56th match)
2006 - 4th June (57th match)
2007 - 5th June (61st match)
2008 - 5th June (61st match)
2009 - 5th July (80th match)

[For Sunday's result]

Comparative dates on which the Nationals won their 26th match, each season:

2012 - 22nd May (43rd match of season)
2015 - 24th May (44th match)
2013 - 26th May (50th match)
2005 - 30th May (51st match)
2014 - 30th May (53rd match)
2010 - 31st May (52nd match)
2006 - 5th June (58th match)
2011 - 5th June (59th match)
2007 - 9th June (62nd match)
2008 - 10th June (66th match)
2009 - 11th July (86th match)

[For Monday's result]

Comparative dates on which the Nationals notched their 27th win, each season:

2012 - 25th May (45th match of season)
2015 - 25th May (45th match)
2013 - 28th May (52nd match)
2005 - 31st May (52nd match)
2014 - 31st May (54th match)
2010 - 4th June (56th match)
2006 - 7th June (60th match)
2011 - 7th June (61st match)
2007 - 12th June (64th match)
2008 - 13th June (69th match)
2009 - 21st July (93rd match)

[Smithian]

If the 2015 Nats are ever going to catch the 2012 crew and pull ahead it will be over the next week or in mid-late June.

Come on, 2015 Nats. It's not like the 2012 group won 100 games. You can do better.

[tomterp]

If the 2015 Nats are ever going to catch the 2012 crew and pull ahead it will be over the next week or in mid-late June.

Come on, 2015 Nats. It's not like the 2012 group won 100 games. You can do better.

It would be an achievement if we could catch the 2005 Nats by midseason, who were in first at 50-31.     

[Smithian]

It would be an achievement if we could catch the 2005 Nats by midseason, who were in first at 50-31.     

Get out of here old man! No one cares for your stories about something that happened over a decade ago! That is ancient history!

[tomterp]

Get out of here old man! No one cares for your stories about something that happened over a decade ago! That is ancient history!

Nick Johnson's quadruple slash at June 8 -    .343   .457     .554   1.011.  Harperesque!   

[Mr Clean]

Come on 2015, kick 2012's ass.

[OldChelsea]

It would be an achievement if we could catch the 2005 Nats by midseason, who were in first at 50-31.     

Keeping up with the '05 Overachievers is going to be a bit difficult in the coming days since we're about to pull up to the stretch (26th May - 3rd July) when they went 26-6. Better opportunities await with effect from 4th July, when the '05 edition lost to the Mets and went into a considerable tailspin after that.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Oh man, I was at that game...I think that was the last time Sun-woo Kim pitched as a Nat. There was a snooki-type girl in the row in front of me who had a Mets thong sticking out from her Mets sun dress, which somehow or another remains a much more vivid (as in nightmare vivid) memory than the game itself. Of course we had no way of knowing at the time that was the Nats' high water mark and that we would eventually crawl across the finish line in last place.

4th July, when the '05 edition lost to the Mets and went into a considerable tailspin after that.

[tomterp]

The July 3rd win in the 12th over the Cubs in Chicago was definitely the high water mark for 2005, in every sense.  They just seemed to get tired after that.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN200507030.shtml

Of course, if you look at that lineup you might wonder how they ever got that far.

Brad Wilkerson
Junior Spivey 2B   
Jose Guillen RF   
Vinny Castilla 3B   
Marlon Byrd LF
Carlos Baerga 1B
Brian Schneider C   
Jamey Carroll SS   
Ryan Drese P

 

Did have Rick Short coming off the bench, however.   

[pollaxt]

Almost 20 MPH blowing out...all the runs might come by HRs again today.