Nationals @ Mets, Game 1

[Dave in Fairfax]

   

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Washington Nationals @ New York Mets
Where: Citi Field
When: September 2, 7:10 PM EDT
Weather: 73°F, 0% chance of precipitation
TV: MASN
Radio: 106.7 FM

Pitching Match-Up:

Josiah Gray (RHP, 7-8, 4.67 ERA, 10.2 K/9, 1.314 WHIP) - versus - David Peterson (LHP, 7-3, 3.21 ERA, 10.4 K/9, 1.283 WHIP)


Batting Line-Ups:
   

Washington Nationals 1. Lane Thomas (R) LF 2. Joey Meneses (R) RF 3. Luke Voit (R) 1B 4. Nelson Cruz (R) DH 5. Keibert Ruiz (S) C 6. Luis García (L) 2B 7. Ildemaro Vargas (S) 3B 8. Victor Robles (R) CF 9. C.J. Abrams (L) SS

New York Mets 1. Brandon Nimmo (L) CF 2. Starling Marte (R) RF 3. Francisco Lindor (S) SS 4. Pete Alonso (R) 1B 5. Daniel Vogelbach (L) DH 6. Jeff McNeil (L) 2B 7. Mark Canha (R) LF 8. Eduardo Escobar (S) 3B 9. Tomás Nido (R) C

Washington Nationals



New York Mets



On this day:

   

[Elvir Ovcina]

It's pretty depressing to play the Mets and see that their #8 hitter would hit cleanup on the Nats.

[Slateman]

V-J day

[welch]

V-J day

I think it was mid-August. The US dropped the Bombs in early July. My dad was in San Diego and was released from the Navy ("first in, first out") and was back in DC in time to see the last games of the season. Nats lost it on the famous game when an outfielder forgot his sunglasses and lost a fly-ball in the sun.

[Dave in Fairfax]

Did Robles hurt himself?

[Dave in Fairfax]

I think it was mid-August. The US dropped the Bombs in early July. My dad was in San Diego and was released from the Navy ("first in, first out") and was back in DC in time to see the last games of the season. Nats lost it on the famous game when an outfielder forgot his sunglasses and lost a fly-ball in the sun.

Some countries have V-J Day on August 14 (August 15 on the other side of the International Date Line), the day the Emperor announced the surrender. For the US, VJ Day is September 2, the day of the official surrender on the USS Missouri.

[welch]

Why the gold ribbon on the left chest of the Nats' jerseys?

[Slateman]

Luis Garcia literally swinging at a pitch that barely missed his head

[Slateman]

Game

[welch]

Keith & Ron were just talking about Gray and homers. "Relies too much on his slider and not enough on his fast ball. The fastball is good enough to play. The slider is flat."

Gray is averaging two homers per none innings. Ouch.

[Elvir Ovcina]

Not often you see a 2B come within a couple inches of catching a triple.

[Slateman]

Keith and Ron are idiots. His fastball is no where near good enough. Opponents are slugging .705 against it

[Slateman]

Holy crap, actual great base running

[Elvir Ovcina]

WTF, lol.  They were about to have a chance to strand a leadoff triple and instead they try to backpick a dude on strike 3 at an uncovered base (and where he'd have been safe even if it had been covered)?

[JCA-CrystalCity]

I think it was mid-August. The US dropped the Bombs in early July. My dad was in San Diego and was released from the Navy ("first in, first out") and was back in DC in time to see the last games of the season. Nats lost it on the famous game when an outfielder forgot his sunglasses and lost a fly-ball in the sun.

the hostilities stopped mid August but the treaty was signed 9/2 in Tokyo Bay. Dad worked at Oak Ridge. His brother was going to operate a Higgins boat in Olympic/ Coronet (invasion of kyushu and honshu), so we always thought dad did my uncle a favor

[Slateman]

Cruz needs to make em pay right here

[Elvir Ovcina]

Holy crap, actual great base running

Followed by some bad running - should have scored on that ball to LF.

[Slateman]

WTF, lol.  They were about to have a chance to strand a leadoff triple and instead they try to backpick a dude on strike 3 at an uncovered base (and where he'd have been safe even if it had been covered)?

Mets remind me of all the Nats teams that were very talented, but never seemed to be fundamentally sound

[Slateman]

FFS Cruz. Garbage.

[Elvir Ovcina]

Doo doo doo swinging at ball four, just swinging at ball four...

[Slateman]

Oh Keibert ....

[Slateman]

Nats hitting in a nutshell

[Elvir Ovcina]

Nats hitting in a nutshell

Hey, Cruz could have just hit the ball Ruiz did and been out by 40 feet on a 6-4-3.  It would have been faster.

[Elvir Ovcina]

They should make Vargas the infield coach.  I'm only half-kidding.  Dude's so fundamentally sound out there.

[Slateman]

What a play by Vargas