Nationals Versus Padres July 8th 2006 July 9, 2006
The President, Secretary of State and Attorney General all showed up to RFK Saturday…maybe they should have brought along the Nats’ starting pitching. Seventy-nine degrees and low humidity–very San Diego like–proved to be the only thing Nats’ fans could cheer about last night. Pedro Astacio, making his second start of the season after a few months on the DL, proved that Monday night’s good showing against the Marlins was not what we can expect game-after-game. Five runs in 4 innings (one unearned) and Pedro was gone. Micah Bowie started off a procession of 5 relievers who kept the Padres to zero runs and 4 hits but the damage was already done.
On the positive, Soriano has hit lead-off home runs in both of Astacio’s starts. Other than that bang to start the game, the offense was limited to Alex Escobar scoring (after his double) on a Royce Clayton single.
More troubling than our starting pitching woes is the evident lack of fire in our middle infield. After watching Vidro get rung up with grounder after grounder a few games ago, tonight I watched Royce Clayton not even try to field a number of grounders. With Vidro, I think the losing is bothering him and with the rest of the All Star break, he just has given up. Hopefully, he will enjoy the down time and be back to his limited range when the games pick up again.
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- Author : Jol
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Great pics of this game, bummers on the lackluster effort from the Nats. Maybe Blowden can find a taker for Vidro. Really should’ve sold him off early in the year.
Scorecards are a nice touch. You didn’t go back and fill in the pitcher’s details, though. Lazy, lazy. haha.
Stupid All-Star break, though my team needs the time off.
Pitcher details! hahah, sorry, if I did, it would be by getting it online the day after. Still haven’t gotten the hang of those pitcher stats.