Nationals @ Mets, Game 1

[Dave in Fairfax]

We won a pitching duel?

[Slateman]

[JCA-CrystalCity]

We won a pitching duel?

and the game day thread went to a second page.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Well yay 

[welch]

Nice hit by Garcia and then fine fielding play.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Impressive how the spare part pitchers came through - Espino, Machado, Clay, McGowin.  Not one  of them supposed to be on the roster this year.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Nice hit by Garcia and then fine fielding play.

2, really.  Nice stop on the one he bowled into 2d, then a nice play on the DP

[welch]

Mets announcers wowed by the number of strikeouts against the few hits and fewer walks. They are still tracking the Barves, for some reason. Mets now 8.5 games back of Atlanta, if anyone cares. That's assuming Braves hold on in 9th, leading 6 - 4.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Smallest friday night crowd for the mutts since New Amsterdam?

[sixthree175]

Tankathon Schmankathon!

[OldChelsea]

THE RACING PRECEDENTS: Comparative dates on which the Nationals notched their 55th win, each season:

2016 - 15th July (91st match of the season)
2017 - 16th July (91st match)
2012 - 22nd July (94th match of season)
2014 - 22nd July (98th match)
2005 - 23rd July (98th match)
2019 - 24th July (101st match)
2018 - 2nd August (108th match)
2015 - 4th August (105th match)
2011 - 7th August (114th match)
2013 - 9th August (115th match)
2007 - 15th August (120th match)
2006 - 25th August (128th match)
2021 - 27th August (127th match)
2010 - 28th August (130th match)
2008 - 6th September (143rd match)
2009 - 30th September (158th match)
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2020 - finished 26-34

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Smallest friday night crowd for the mutts since New Amsterdam?

not a huge crowd here, either

[welch]

NY Post, one of the world's worst newspapers, headlines that the Mets lost "to the Lowly Washington Nationals".

Harrumph.