Nationals vs Rangers, Game 2

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WASHINGTON NATIONALS vs. TEXAS RANGERS
Where: Nationals Park
Gametime: 4:05 p.m. EDT
TV: MASN, MLB.tv
Radio: 106.7 FM, 87.7 FM (Spanish), MLB.com
Weather: Partly cloudy, 82 degrees, wind 7 mph in from left field

TEXAS "Lone" RANGERS SENATORS (29-35) LF Sam Haggerty CF Wyatt Langford 3B Josh Jung 2B Marcus Semien 1B Jake Burger RF Adolis García C Jonah Heim DH Kyle Higashioka SS Ezequiel Duran RHP Jacob deGrom (5-2, 2.34 ERA)

WASHINGTON NATIONALS (29-33) SS CJ Abrams LF James Wood 2B Luis García Jr. DH Josh Bell 1B Nathaniel Lowe CF Robert Hassell III RF Alex Call C Keibert Ruiz 3B José Tena LHP Mitchell Parker (4-5, 4.71 ERA)

[para]

If Nats starting pitchers continue to struggle in the 1st inning, They can't be used in pressure relief so they can never be anymore than an inning eating mop up pitchers in relief

[KV]

Young gets that

[RobDibblesGhost]

Game.

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Mitch having his usual first inning.

[Smithian]

Hassell can’t make that mistake with Jacob Young on roster

[Slateman]

Hassell sucks. DFA.

[IdahoNat]

Jacob Young haters awfully quiet right now.

[RobDibblesGhost]

Mitch having his usual first inning.

That’s on Hassell.

[IanRubbish]

Franny is in rare form, even for him, praising Hassell on his error

[IanRubbish]

Need CJ to get going, OPS has dropped from .942 on May 18 to .798 today.   Hasn't homered since then.

[GataNats]

Got to stop making first pitch outs

[IanRubbish]

Got to stop making first pitch outs

That is not what Darnell Coles teaches.

[para]

We sure are a fickle group. Quick to jump an most all players after singing praises in earlier games. Then there's Bell. He is treated like a yo-yo. Hope they don't read this board. RH3 was the almighty a few games back... Look at past games and see whats been written . Abrams is in the dumper now too.

[IanRubbish]

Good inning for Parker

[GataNats]

Parker throwing hard

[welch]

We sure are a fickle group. Quick to jump an most all players after singing praises in earlier games. Then there's Bell. He is treated like a yo-yo. Hope they don't read this board. RH3 was the almighty a few games back... Look at past games and see whats been written . Abrams is in the dumper now too.

You mean there is a tendency to shout "DFA all of them!"??

[para]

Baseball is a marathon not a sprint. Lets give some of these guys a break. To temper that, don't hold back on boneheaded baserunning and mistakes either, They deserve to be called out for lack of hustle and stupid plays

[IanRubbish]

Thought they made an interesting point about the Rangers offense collapsing over the last two years in spite of a similar lineup.  Happened to Baltimore as well this season.

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Awful at bat for Ruiz. He looks lost.

[IanRubbish]

Parker 70% strikes

[varoadking]

We sure are a fickle group. Quick to jump an most all players after singing praises in earlier games. Then there's Bell. He is treated like a yo-yo. Hope they don't read this board. RH3 was the almighty a few games back... Look at past games and see whats been written . Abrams is in the dumper now too.

This place is the ultimate for small sample size judgements...guys can go from hero to goat with a single pitch...

OTOH, there are those of us who are either fanbois or haters regardless...

[IanRubbish]

Awful at bat for Ruiz. He looks lost.

Slider completely fooled him.  I really thought he'd get back to .700 OPS this year, but he's back to constantly waving at bad pitches.

[para]

he has the 5th best Ba of todays Nat starters, Right in the middle. I think he is a wild streaky hitter. will swing at anything and gets lucky many times. Ruiz does not equal bat control

[imref]

This place is the ultimate for small sample size judgements...guys can go from hero to goat with a single pitch...

OTOH, there are those of us who are either fanbois or haters regardless...

I think their might also be a wee bit of sarcasm from time to time.