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Offline Elvir Ovcina

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Re: Nationals vs. Phillies, Game 2
« Topic Start: September 22, 2020, 02:40:34 PM »
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Philadelphia Phillies at Washington Nationals, Game 2, 1st Game of a Doubleheader
When: Tuesday, September 22, 2020, 3:05 p.m.
Where: Nationals Park
Weather: at game time, 71° and sunny, 0% chance of precipitation

Another early start on the GDT as a reminder to forumites that today's start time is yet another early odd time due to the doubleheader. Confirmed lineups to come.

Philadelphia Phillies

Aaron Nola (RHP, 5-3, 2.92 ERA) - Nola is coming off his 2nd worst start of the season (5 runs on 5 hits and 5 walks in 5 1/3 innings), but in his last start against Washington on September 1, he shut out the Nats over 8 innings.



Washington Nationals

Austin Voth (RHP, 0-5, 7.17 ERA) - Voth's last start was a 5-inning, 1 run win over the Rays. Voth has never faced the Phillies, unless it was in spring training.



Today we note the autumnal equinox with feasts and feats of strength. And a happy 112th Ден на независимостта на България to our friends in Bulgaria and 60th jour de l'indépendance to our friends in Mali!

Going by WAR, the most accomplished major leaguer born on this day was Urban Shocker (1890-1928), who pitched for the St. Louis Browns and New York Yankees. He was a spitball pitcher. I had a joke about what Shocker's nickname or baseball grip would be, but I decided it was probably not in good taste.

HOF pitcher Bob Lemon (1920-2000) was also born on this day, as was HOF manager Tommy Lasorda who is 93 years young today. The most prominent current player born on September 22 is Carlos Correa. Among other prominent names, Vince Coleman turns 59 today.

Others born on this day include physicist Michael Faraday (1791-1867), field marshal and war criminal Wilhelm Keitel (1882-1946), actor/director Erich von Stroheim (1885-1957), singer/dancer/cheerleader Toni Basil (b. 1943), Whitesnake singer David Coverdale (b. 1951), rock legend Joan Jett (b. 1958), actor Scott Baio (b. 1960), KC Royals manager Mike Matheny (b. 1970), etc.

From the Nats' Twitter feed:
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I bow down to our new game thread overlord.  That's a good start, dude.

Also, crappy season overall, but it's fair to point out how ridiculous Soto's been.  You have a 21-year-old power hitter staring down a potential batting title from a distance of one week.   That's once-every-never kinda crap.