Today's Starting Pitchers Are Going To Stare At You Now...
The Nationals vs Padilla...
Josh Bard - 1 for 5, .200 AVG.
Elijah Dukes - 1 for 4, .250 AVG, 1 HR, 1 RBI.
Adam Dunn - 4 for 11, .364 AVG, 2 2B, 1 HR, 3 RBI's.
Willie Harris - 1 for 1, 1.000 AVG, 1 HR, 1 RBI.
Mike Morse - 2 for 2, 1.000 AVG.
Pete Orr - 3 for 6, .500 AVG.
Ryan Zimmerman - 1 for 1, 1.000 AVG, 1 2B.
• How Long Can DC's Nationals Hold Out...
The first Washington-based baseball team of the so-called modern era of baseball to lose over 100 games was the 1904 Washington Senators. The '04 Senators suffered their 99th loss in the 131st game of the season, and quickly dropped the 100th the next night in the first of a four-game series with the New York Highlanders in Washington Heights' Manhattan's Hilltop Park. The 1909 Senators dropped #99 to the Boston Red Sox, then held out for two games, winning the second of three from the Sox and the first of three against the St. Louis Brown before reaching double-digits in losses in game 136.
40 years later, the 1949 Washington Senators held out for two games before hitting 100, losing the 99th to the St. Louis Browns in game 144 before losing their 100th to Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto and the '49 Yankees. The '55 Sens dropped 99 and 100 in back to back games against the Baltimore Orioles. The 1961 Senators, awarded to DC after the Twins were born, lasted two games with 99 losses before losing the final game of the season to the Kansas City Athletics to finish 61-100 and the '62 Senators dropped 99 and 100 in back-to-back games to the Yankees. In 1963, the KC Athletics and the Baltimore Orioles handed Washington their 99th and 100th L's in games 152 and 153, and before the '08 Washington Nationals dropped 100+ games, the last DC baseball team to do so was the '64 Senators, who went to 62-99 in the next to last game of the season against the Boston Red Sox, who beat the Sens again the next night to make it a clean one hundred L's.
The '08 Nationals lost #99 in game 158 against the Marlins and then dropped the hundredth the next night in Philadelphia...How long can the '09 Nationals hold out? They got #1 last night, a win tonight ties the DC Baseball record...after that, they'll set the record for staving off triple-digit embarrassment...
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