Tonight, we took a little road trip south to catch the Potomac Nationals’ opening day and Shawn Hill’s rehab start. The start was monitored by a small crowd of 1300, plenty of bloggers and our Nats’ manager and his coaches. Look for all of the other bloggers’ re-caps and interviews shortly.

Not privy to that kind of access tonight, we just took in the game and watched Hill. Although several radar guns were positioned near Manny Acta, Pat Corrales and Rick Aponte - the rest of us couldn’t see pitch speed. Hill looked great in the first few innings, but gave up a few hits as the game went on. After his 5 innings, he threw for a few more minutes in the bullpen. In his start, Hill gave up 4 hits, struck out 4 and walked one.

Jordan Zimmermann, a draft choice from last year, pitched the remaining 4 innings and ended up collecting the save. Impressively, he struck out 6, but he also issued 3 walks.

Chris Marrero didn’t have the best night in front of team officials. He went 0 for 4 with 2 strike-outs.

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Tonight, the Nats finally put Dmitri Young on the DL with a back sprain.  They activated catcher Johnny Estrada.  No word on pending roster moves. 

Back to Big League ball tomorrow. Bergmann will face lefty Scott Olsen for the 7:10 start.

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