Heart-Breaking
That long West Coast nightmare is over. Till next August.
What a miserable week for Nationals fans. Things were looking good after Houston. Chad's Friday night defeat at Colorado set the pace for two more sweeps, bad defense, a shaky bullpen and close heart-wrenching losses throughout the rest of the roadtrip.
Wednesday's loss comes - not at the fault of the spectacular (unexpected) offensive production from some of our guys -- but rather at Shawn Hill's somewhat shaky outting (seven runs -- six earned -- in 5 1/3 innings) and a bullpen who cruised through July with some of the best numbers in baseball.
Coupled with another important Felipe Lopez game-changing error, the Nats lost their 8-3 lead to be defeated 10-9 in 12 innings.
It's hard to even write about Ayala giving up a 2 home-runs and a double in his appearance. We're big fans...but it was not his day.
Colome (any word on what happened to him?), Rauch, Schroder and Cordero kept things under control. Saul Rivera entered in the 12th inning -- giving up 2 hits and the game-winning sacrifice fly by Hillenbrand to Austin Kearns. Austin's throw to Flores was just off and the Dodgers took to the field to celebrate the sweep.
What was good:
Robert Fick hit a homerun. Really.
Flores continues to pleasantly surprise us. He went 3 for 5.
Church also got back in the groove - going 4 for 5.
Schneider-Man played first base in the 12 inning!
The Nats are finally back home where we can put a stop to this streak (oh, and boo Barry Bonds).
And since we're all angry and defeated after this collapse, Steph sent us a timely e-mail this morning to cheer us up.
What a miserable week for Nationals fans. Things were looking good after Houston. Chad's Friday night defeat at Colorado set the pace for two more sweeps, bad defense, a shaky bullpen and close heart-wrenching losses throughout the rest of the roadtrip.
Wednesday's loss comes - not at the fault of the spectacular (unexpected) offensive production from some of our guys -- but rather at Shawn Hill's somewhat shaky outting (seven runs -- six earned -- in 5 1/3 innings) and a bullpen who cruised through July with some of the best numbers in baseball.
Coupled with another important Felipe Lopez game-changing error, the Nats lost their 8-3 lead to be defeated 10-9 in 12 innings.
It's hard to even write about Ayala giving up a 2 home-runs and a double in his appearance. We're big fans...but it was not his day.
Colome (any word on what happened to him?), Rauch, Schroder and Cordero kept things under control. Saul Rivera entered in the 12th inning -- giving up 2 hits and the game-winning sacrifice fly by Hillenbrand to Austin Kearns. Austin's throw to Flores was just off and the Dodgers took to the field to celebrate the sweep.
What was good:
Robert Fick hit a homerun. Really.
Flores continues to pleasantly surprise us. He went 3 for 5.
Church also got back in the groove - going 4 for 5.
Schneider-Man played first base in the 12 inning!
The Nats are finally back home where we can put a stop to this streak (oh, and boo Barry Bonds).
And since we're all angry and defeated after this collapse, Steph sent us a timely e-mail this morning to cheer us up.
You've gotta have hope!
Musn't sit around and mope.
Nuthin' half as bad as it may appear,
Nuthin' half as bad as it may appear,
wait'll next year and hope.
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