The Nats Thread

i think more than anything it shows that zim's injury was worse than anyone ever admitted. with the offense as miserable as its been i think williams would gladly sacrifice defense to get ryans bat in there, provided his hamstring is up for a full game. apparenty thats still not the case

not that theyre required to fully disclose these things but its kinda a bummer that with all the talk about him over the last month he never fully came back like rumored

well storen is not inspiring much confidence, but what a win that was. even the outs were mostly well hit balls.

at least they sounded that way. i dont get mlb network anymore so i was listening to the whole game this time.

what a catch by bryce harper!

just saw it. good game for him all around. that home run was a bomb

its amazing how often you see pitchers make throwing errors like that. obviously against someone as good as bumgarner you take runs where you can get them

just another reminder of how good that fister trade turned out

I can definitely agree that Fister trade was phenomenal.. First bunch of innings the team looked just as bad hitting wise as they had the last game… how many innings did they go without scoring? Got to be over 20… but that throw really helped out..

who starts Game 4? Gio, right? They won't pitch Strasburg on short rest?

agree on the early hitting, but scoring a few runs, even aided on an error, has to be a huge load off. like i said, at least people were hitting the ball tonight. and tense as it was, storen got the save. lots of takeaways.

gio tomorrow night, presumably with a very short leash (and maybe strasburg ready in the bullpen?). i saw a mention of zimmermann for game 5 if it gets there, but maybe he shows up tomorrow prepared to throw in relief instead? couple ways they could play it. i think zimmermanns more capable of coming in from the pen, but strasburg after a few innings of gio could mess up the giants lineup big time.

nats have hit vogelsong hard recently so who knows.

hey a win's a win..don't matter how you get it…

hutch wrote:
When are people going to realize Harper is nothing…. every time I go "Ok Harper, if you take advantage of this situation I'll stand corrected.. prove me wrong!" … He never does.

in hindsight, what a stupid thing to say.

stevewizzle wrote:

hutch wrote:
When are people going to realize Harper is nothing…. every time I go "Ok Harper, if you take advantage of this situation I'll stand corrected.. prove me wrong!" … He never does.

in hindsight, what a stupid thing to say.

I don't think so… He still has yet to prove himself.

No sooner than the Nats had won game three, I received an offer to buy NLCS tickets. Now there's organizational confidence.

Under the odd chance they they don't make it, I'd assume the cost of the ticket would be refunded. Would the ticket fees be refunded as well?

they refund your ticket price obviously..but not the fees I think….not sure on the fees…my friend has like $2000 pending on how they do!

hutch wrote:

stevewizzle wrote:

hutch wrote:
When are people going to realize Harper is nothing…. every time I go "Ok Harper, if you take advantage of this situation I'll stand corrected.. prove me wrong!" … He never does.

in hindsight, what a stupid thing to say.

I don't think so… He still has yet to prove himself.

He'll be 22 in 10 days.  22.  (I can't believe I'm defending him.)

Shemp wrote:

hutch wrote:

stevewizzle wrote:

hutch wrote:
When are people going to realize Harper is nothing…. every time I go "Ok Harper, if you take advantage of this situation I'll stand corrected.. prove me wrong!" … He never does.

in hindsight, what a stupid thing to say.

I don't think so… He still has yet to prove himself.

He'll be 22 in 10 days.  22.  (I can't believe I'm defending him.)

If he becomes a better ballplayer I'll be the first to admit it.. even if he remains a prick.

James wrote:
No sooner than the Nats had won game three, I received an offer to buy NLCS tickets. Now there's organizational confidence.

Under the odd chance they they don't make it, I'd assume the cost of the ticket would be refunded. Would the ticket fees be refunded as well?

Tickets are refunded. Fees were initially not refunded two years ago, but everyone made a stink about it and I think they are now refunded as well.

hutch wrote:

Shemp wrote:

hutch wrote:

stevewizzle wrote:

hutch wrote:
When are people going to realize Harper is nothing…. every time I go "Ok Harper, if you take advantage of this situation I'll stand corrected.. prove me wrong!" … He never does.

in hindsight, what a stupid thing to say.

I don't think so… He still has yet to prove himself.

He'll be 22 in 10 days.  22.  (I can't believe I'm defending him.)

If he becomes a better ballplayer I'll be the first to admit it.. even if he remains a prick.

I was such a prick when I was 22. I just don't get why everyone pours it on this kid.

Hell of a game by him today. Rendon holds this team together, but Bryce is the face. That's got to be weird as a 22 year old kid.

stevewizzle wrote:

I was such a prick when I was 22.

Really?

I was such a nice guy….



Rendon is the man…..

hutch wrote:

stevewizzle wrote:

hutch wrote:
When are people going to realize Harper is nothing…. every time I go "Ok Harper, if you take advantage of this situation I'll stand corrected.. prove me wrong!" … He never does.

in hindsight, what a stupid thing to say.

I don't think so… He still has yet to prove himself.

Only 1 more player has hit more homers in a playoff series than him at that age. I say he's on course. Who else has 2 homers on the Giants in this series?

I got a notification that Strasburg was ready to go in yeserday's game if they needed him, so I imagine it would be the same situation tonight. Seeing Zim for game 5 and hopefully that would mean Stras in game 1 of the NLCS. 1 game at a time for now though.

James wrote:
No sooner than the Nats had won game three, I received an offer to buy NLCS tickets. Now there's organizational confidence.

Under the odd chance they they don't make it, I'd assume the cost of the ticket would be refunded. Would the ticket fees be refunded as well?

My friend showed me his game 5 tickets when we went to game 2 on Saturday. They went on sale with the first 2 games didn't they?

Certainly possible. You follow more closely than me. I was just posting based on a presale email I got.

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:

James wrote:
No sooner than the Nats had won game three, I received an offer to buy NLCS tickets. Now there's organizational confidence.

Under the odd chance they they don't make it, I'd assume the cost of the ticket would be refunded. Would the ticket fees be refunded as well?

My friend showed me his game 5 tickets when we went to game 2 on Saturday. They went on sale with the first 2 games didn't they?

I could see Harper's towering shot from my couch hit the drink about 5 seconds before I saw it on TV.