Nationals vs Dodgers, Game 1

[JCA-CrystalCity]

6 runs should be enough. But the bottom of the barrel pitching is bottom of the barrel

[nobleisthyname]

I thought Ohtani had all of that one for a moment.

[welch]

Crews went 2-3 with a home run today, so there is that...

[SkinsNatFan21RIP]

I just don't see how things are going to magically get better over the next 2-3 years? Sykora, Gray, Susana and Perales are basically all hurt or have injury scares. There's nothing else in the system for pitching besides maybe Clemmey that's even remotely any good. Willits is probably 5 years away and Crews might just be a major bust. Wood can't hit anything and Abrams is going to be traded before the season is over. I really just don't see how this team gets better absent an ownership change?

[nats2playoffs]

INNING  LAD   WSH
INNING
LAD   WSH
1st   Abrams homered to right (387 feet), Wood scored and House scored.   0   3
3rd   Ohtani homered to right center (401 feet), T. Hernández scored and Pages scored.   3   3
3rd   Betts homered to left center (380 feet), Tucker scored.   5   3
3rd   Abrams reached on infield single to second, Lile scored.   5   4
4th   Pages homered to left (412 feet), T. Hernández scored.   7   4
5th   Freeman homered to right (391 feet), Betts scored.   9   4
5th   T. Hernández doubled to center, Muncy scored.   10   4
5th   Tucker singled to right, T. Hernández scored, Freeland to second, Pages to third.   11   4
7th   Tucker homered to right center (404 feet).   12   4
8th   Ruiz doubled to right, Nuñez scored, Vivas to third.   12   5
8th   Young grounded out to third, Vivas scored.   12   6
9th   Ohtani hit sacrifice fly to center, Call scored, Pages to third.   13   6

Los Angeles Dodgers     13
Washington Nationals  6

[GataNats]

I just don't see how things are going to magically get better over the next 2-3 years? Sykora, Gray, Susana and Perales are basically all hurt or have injury scares. There's nothing else in the system for pitching besides maybe Clemmey that's even remotely any good. Willits is probably 5 years away and Crews might just be a major bust. Wood can't hit anything and Abrams is going to be traded before the season is over. I really just don't see how this team gets better absent an ownership change?

Willits isn’t 5 years away.  I can actually see that guy getting up here this season

[OfftheBat]

Suddenly work got more interesting.

Same for me lol

[Squab]

In my first GDT start since April 21, 2016 I suppose I should have expected some rust.

Tying the worst pitching performance in Nationals history is pretty bad though

[OfftheBat]

weather is too good. Went to Dunkin for an ice tea.  2d Dunkin run if the day. 1st was a large iced coffee

Awesome, always love me some good weather


If I were there, I would've probably needed alcohol to numb the pain of this loss though. $14 beers FTW 

[Natsinpwc]

Awesome, always love me some good weather


If I were there, I would've probably needed alcohol to numb the pain of this loss though. $14 beers FTW 

I heard them this morning on tv saying there offering $9 16 ounce Bud products. True?

[OfftheBat]

In my first GDT start since April 21, 2016 I suppose I should have expected some rust.

Tying the worst pitching performance in Nationals history is pretty bad though

According to Spencer Nusbaum, this is actually the worst pitching performance in Nats history:

"This is the first time in Nationals history that a pitcher has allowed 11 earned runs in a start."

[Natsinpwc]

According to Spencer Nusbaum, this is actually the worst pitching performance in Nats history:

"This is the first time in Nationals history that a pitcher has allowed 11 earned runs in a start."

Who was the pitcher who came from the Orioles and gave up a bunch of runs in the first inning before he was pulled. I mean guys usually get pulled before they give up that many runs.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

yup, and also $5 24-ounce Bud products

I heard them this morning on tv saying there offering $9 16 ounce Bud products. True?

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Willits isn’t 5 years away.  I can actually see that guy getting up here this season

2027 but yes. Perales is pitching, it's Rosario that's hurt. Fien could be a stud and is on the sane tome frame as Willits. The two high school pitchers they took at the top of the draft, Sime and Harmon, might be on a longer time frame but are well regarded.

It's also a bit ridiculous to write off a 30 HR all star the next year. Lile looks like a success story, too.

I don’t believe in rosy scenarios, but better baseball people than me think it's not as talentless as the post you quoted says

[welch]

I just don't see how things are going to magically get better over the next 2-3 years? Sykora, Gray, Susana and Perales are basically all hurt or have injury scares. There's nothing else in the system for pitching besides maybe Clemmey that's even remotely any good. Willits is probably 5 years away and Crews might just be a major bust. Wood can't hit anything and Abrams is going to be traded before the season is over. I really just don't see how this team gets better absent an ownership change?

I'm not far off. I think Sykora and Susana will return next year. Simes will progress, at least until TJS. Not much hope for Gray, and I thought Perales was unlikely. Clemmy? Time to watch Harrisburg.

Willits and Fien, I hope will make the majors about three years from now, at least as second half call-ups. (Remember, I heard Bob Wolf call Harmon Killebrew's first home run. Harmon was about 18)

The big gap is all the second and third-round picks that have failed. Look to Rochester: Crews is still a maybe. The Red Wings also have Pinckney, Yoyo Morales, Franklin, Hassell III, Trey Lipscomb, Harry Ford, Riley A., and Tres (remember him?) Barrera. Maybe if some Rochester position players hit the way we expected...

We will see if Toboni builds a drafting and development machine. Heck, the first season I understood was 1954, and it was a miserable stretch until 1959, when Sievers, Killebrew, Lemon, and Allison all hit homers in a home ballpark that was 350 down the LF line. Then the 1960 team was actually pretty good. Ugh.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

I split out some posts that got into views and arguments made in political ads.

[OfftheBat]

Who was the pitcher who came from the Orioles and gave up a bunch of runs in the first inning before he was pulled. I mean guys usually get pulled before they give up that many runs.

Good question but I don't have the answer... any one else can chime in?

"...guys usually get pulled before they give up that many runs"

Indeed, that's why I was asking if Butera was asleep earlier in this thread

[blue911]

Who was the pitcher who came from the Orioles and gave up a bunch of runs in the first inning before he was pulled. I mean guys usually get pulled before they give up that many runs.

Jeremy Guthrie

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Daniel Cabrera, a/k/a D-Crab. Never shown how to use a pitching rubber when he came up.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Jeremy Guthrie

wow, could be either.

[nobleisthyname]

It really is incredible how little talent there is to show at the major league level outside of the Soto trade despite being in a rebuild since the trade deadline 2021. That coincided with the draft lottery changes which haven't helped but the Nats seem to have blown their two top-5 picks regardless.

[English Natsie]

Let's just turn the Pages on this one...

(and what was Franny doing going 'Bang Zoom'?...)

[imref]

Had a great time at Nats park until the top of the second.

[OfftheBat]

Jeremy Guthrie

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a while! Geez, it makes me feel old.

[SkinsNatFan21RIP]

2027 but yes. Perales is pitching, it's Rosario that's hurt. Fien could be a stud and is on the sane tome frame as Willits. The two high school pitchers they took at the top of the draft, Sime and Harmon, might be on a longer time frame but are well regarded.

It's also a bit ridiculous to write off a 30 HR all star the next year. Lile looks like a success story, too.

I don’t believe in rosy scenarios, but better baseball people than me think it's not as talentless as the post you quoted says

James Wood has been terrible since the all-star break. I love the kid and if he doesn't develop further we are absolutely screwed but he just has not been good at all for awhile now.