IGT 8/9/2019: WAS @ NYM -- A Step Up in Class

[Methead]

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Is that four games in a row for Pete?

[Lefty Specialist]

It is. And a laser beam.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Get Rendon here

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Like that

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: I'm in Rockville Centre visiting my mother. Eating at an Italian restaurant called Nick's. They have three TVs: Yankees, Fox News, and preseason football. Not even a home team in the football game.

Get the Chicken Godzilla -- in honor of Godzilla Alonso.

[Lefty Specialist]

Alonso diving twice for balls Panik could have easily fielded.

[Edgy MD]

Edgy MD wrote: I'm in Rockville Centre visiting my mother. Eating at an Italian restaurant called Nick's. They have three TVs: Yankees, Fox News, and preseason football. Not even a home team in the football game. I know Nick's. Good pizza. Bad taste in TV tuning, though.

Guy behind me in a Bacardi shirt got them to change the riveting Pittsburgh/TB preseason action.



What a game.

[Lefty Specialist]

Whew.

[Frayed Knot]

So now this is where, after forcing the Nats to choose between a PH and Strasburg (and they rightly went w/Strasburg IMO), you fuck up the whole strategy by having the bats force him out of the game this inning anyway.

aka: Ye olde Double Whammy!

[Frayed Knot]

Nice 2-strike hitting by Conforto and GREAT read by Rosario.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

JD screwed on that check.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Farts

[Methead]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: JD screwed on that check.

Buy him dinner first at the very least

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: I'm in Rockville Centre visiting my mother. Eating at an Italian restaurant called Nick's. They have three TVs: Yankees, Fox News, and preseason football. Not even a home team in the football game.

Who watches news in a bar?



I think the last time I watched the news in a bar was after the Reagan assassination attempt.

While I was there a local TV film crew came in to interview people to see if they were there specifically to catch up on the latest. Except that no one would talk to them because most were skipping out of work in the

middle of the afternoon. Myself, I wasn't there to watch the latest OR to skip out on work but I wouldn't talk to them either on account of not being real anxious to say that I had merely stopped in to collect my coat

I had left there the previous evening. Don't quite remember how I wound up doing that -- especially seeing as how it was March in upstate New York -- but, y'know, it was a bar.

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: So now this is where, after forcing the Nats to choose between a PH and Strasburg (and they rightly went w/Strasburg IMO), you fuck up the whole strategy by having the bats force him out of the game this inning anyway. aka: Ye olde Double Whammy!

Damn! Looked like we were on our way to just that after the first two batters.

[Frayed Knot]

Double damn!

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Discouraging

[bmfc1]

I'm still steaming over the check-swing call on Davis. And that idiot who made the call is at home tomorrow. F him.

[Frayed Knot]

Well, we got Strasburg out of there anyway.

I suppose I shouldn't be shocked that he was pulled even after a quick 7th and a low-ish pitch count ... but I kinda am.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

That leadoff walk in the 7th was a big moment. Had him at 0-2 as well. My impression after 2 starts is that Stroman is a good pitcher, who occasionally overdoes it.



Top of the order here, let's get it done.

[Methead]

Yeah, let's win this shit

[LWFS]

This is the time. Middle-bottom against Doolittle is an iffier proposition.

[LWFS]

Oof. Squirrel.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Rosey

[Frayed Knot]

Nats finally got burned by their OF shift.

[Frayed Knot]

Need at least a run here Pete.

We can get to Doolittle, but you don't want to have to do it down by two.

[Frayed Knot]

Fourth infield hit by the Nats tonight.

[LWFS]

The Nats' top-of-order rallies like ours should rally.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Dammit

[Methead]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Dammit