Nationals @ Twins, Game 2

[JCA-CrystalCity]

CJ?

[NatNasty]

Boom!

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Trea isn't the only skinny shortstop with power 

[Natsinpwc]

Kind of reminds me of when Bowa hit his first HR for the Phillies. Had to blink and make sure I really saw that.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Harvey mad at the dry hump.

Would like to see Ward get work, but I guess it is Hobie for one, then maybe Banda and Ward.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

It'll be interesting to see who pitches the 8th. I wonder if Harvey was up just to finish the 7th if needed

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

who wouldn't be??

Harvey mad at the dry hump.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Good Jr today

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Edwards settled down nicely. Can assume he's available tomorrow. 

For the 9th, it's non-save situation, so I am guessing Banda or Erasmo, with Finny getting up after a couple of baserunners. I think Ward will be avoided in case they need a long guy tomorrow.

That will leave Ramirez, Edwards, and Finny available.

[Slateman]

Slate- so is Thompson more valuable as a multi inning guy to lock down leads or as a 1 inning guy late? I like him being a long bridge to the back end.

I feel like you should be able to find multi-inning relievers rather easily. Like, Paulo Espino could do it. Kuhl could be that guy if we had a rotation option (like Rutledge later this year?)

Thompson is throwing ~92 in his second inning of work. In 2021 and 2022, as a one inning guy, he was cranking 96-98

[JCA-CrystalCity]

I feel like you should be able to find multi-inning relievers rather easily. Like, Paulo Espino could do it. Kuhl could be that guy if we had a rotation option (like Rutledge later this year?)

Thompson is throwing ~92 in his second inning of work. In 2021 and 2022, as a one inning guy, he was cranking 96-98

I'm kind of infatuated with the Andrew Miller role of a multi-inning guy. Hader was used that way when he came up. Whitlock his Rule 5 year. 

[JCA-CrystalCity]

[Senatorswin]

The old Senators should of known they couldn't beat the new Nationals.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

With the posted, we honor our friend Old Chelsea with the traditional post that tracks the Nats wins to date, in Anglofile style.

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

2014 - 10th April (9th match of season)
2013 - 11th April (9th match)
2019 - 13th April (13th match)
2016 - 14th April (8th match)
2012 - 14th April (9th match)
2018 - 14th April (15th match)
2005 - 16th April (11th match)
2017 - 17th April (12th match)
2011 - 17th April (14th match)
2010 - 19th April (13th match)
2015 - 21st April (14th match)
2021 - 21st April (16th match)
2006 - 21st April (17th match)
2023 - 22nd April (20th match)
2007 - 22nd April (22nd match)
2008 - 24th April (23rd match)
2022 - 29th April (22nd match)
2009 - 4th May (24th match)
2020 - 14th August (17th match)

[imref]

A WINNING STREAK!!!

[Slateman]

I'm kind of infatuated with the Andrew Miller role of a multi-inning guy. Hader was used that way when he came up. Whitlock his Rule 5 year. 

Miller was never a multi inning guy though. They would bring him into an inning, let him finish, and then bring him out to face a batter, then pull him.

Craig Stammen was a multi-inning guy. Or Ramirez last year.

Thompson is doing it, but I cant help but wonder if this is a poor use of him. Like I said, Im hoping he becomes a back end guy after the deadline

[welch]

First Twins game was snowed out. That's what I remember from 1961. We cheered the "snow-out", saying that Calvin Griffith deserved it. We -- Washingtonians and especially kids -- had cheered through all the bad teams and then, right after the good 1960 season, Griffith announced he would steal out team off to Minneapolis. See David Gough, "They've Stolen Our Team":  https://www.amazon.com/Theyve-stolen-our-team-recollection/dp/0966050606/ref=sr_1_1?crid=CWQFMDYUJN3E&keywords=they%27ve+stolen+our+team&qid=1682201118&sprefix=they%27ve+stolen+our+team%2Caps%2C88&sr=8-1

Before Gough's book, every time I did an Internet search on the "Washington Senators", the search returned the US Senators from the state of Washington. The the search remembered that there had been baseball in Washington.