Well that was the fastest baseball game I’ve seen in a while. It should make the MLB happy. Jason Bergmann faced another ace tonight in Brandon Webb, and sorta held his own. Webb ended up pitching his 14th complete game, and the D-backs won 4-0. Bergmann pitched a complete game also, the Nats first since August 2006. Jason made a couple of mistakes, mostly leaving pitches up in the zone that resulted in four solo shot home runs. Two of those homers went to Mark Reynolds. Unfortunately for Bergmann those four mistakes were magnified because the Nats offense was silent once again thanks to Webb’s pitching. Jason pitched very well though, his control was great and he didn’t walk anyone. He should be pleased with his outing. Hopefully his last couple great starts are enough to prove he should be on the starting rotation for good.
The Nats had a couple of chances to score some runs tonight, however all of their big hits came with two outs on the board, and no one could come through with clutch hits. Maybe that’s because the teams current best clutch hitter, Jesus Flores was on the bench tonight, recovering from the headaches and nausea he felt after last nights game. Hopefully Flores sitting tonight was just a precaution and he’ll be back and ready to go tomorrow. Speaking of injuries, Zimmerman took BP today, but not at 100%. We are still hearing the “he might be ready tomorrow” story. So he’s been out for six games and he hurt himself on the 17th of May? He could have been put on the DL with everyone else, and freed up a roster space briefly. Still a trip to the DL for Zimmerman isn’t that unlikely is it?
Lastings Milledge had a pretty good night. He reached base three times and stole two bases. Nieves, Lopez, Langerhans, and Young also had some nice hits. Too bad no one could knock in a run or two. The Nats look to take 2 of 3 tomorrow as Shawn Hill faces Dan Haren. It’ll be interesting to see Hill’s performance after his last couple of rocky starts.
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June 1st, 2008 at 9:45 am
It was an interesting booth last night without having a true play by play guy. I think I heard during Friday’s game that Bob Carpenter will be back on Tuesday.
Another tough matchup today with Haren. It’s a really small sample size(less than 10 at bats each), but Boone and Dukes seem to have had decent success against him including a homerun each.