Game 150: We need a bigger boat.

by Doghouse on Sep 17, 2011 11:13 PM EDT

Wasted: Stephen Strasburg (+19.7%) pitches 6 innings, fanning 3, walking none, and giving up 1 ER.
Rally Rhino: Wilson Ramos (+8.3%) jacks a solo shot to tie it in the 5th (+16.0%).
No whammy: Henry Rodriguez (+8.5%) and Todd Coffey (+10.3%) keep it tied in the 7th and 8th.
No whammy: Drew Storen (+13.2%) and Sean Burnett (+13.2%) keep it tied in the 9th and 10th.
STOP! Collin Balester (-19.9%) makes it through the 11th and 12th clean, but gives up a two-run shot to put the Nats behind in the 13th (-42.2%).
Rally time! Ian Desmond (+12.8%) reaches on error and takes 2nd to lead off the 11th (+17.4%).
Rally FAIL: Michael Morse (-28.6%) GDPs to end the 11th (-32.1%).

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you can't win with a solo HR (unless you don't let the oppo pitcher hit a double...), but still......

Mark Zuckerman: “Make it 4-1 Marlins in the 13th as Balester takes a beating in his 3rd inning of relief. There remain 6 more #Nats available in the bullpen.”

"LESS LOON...!!!" by MissB on Sep 12, 2011
"...and the Nats win four in a row in NY." by Patrick Reddington on Sep 15, 2011

by cat daddy3000 on Sep 17, 2011 11:51 PM EDT reply actions

If he hooks Bally after two and the next pitcher gets tattooed,

Davey gets reamed for taking out a guy who zipped through two innings of work. Bally wasn’t the problem tonight. One run in 13 innings was the problem tonight.

by d_c_guy on Sep 18, 2011 12:23 AM EDT up reply actions

Not true...Bally is NOT good for 3 innings...

But the O-less Nats really are to blame for this brand of FAIL.

FLAIL and FAIL…sort of like Shake and Bake…but waaaaaay worse.

"player development" should not be gladiator games. by cat daddy3000 on Aug 6, 2011

by MissB on Sep 18, 2011 1:36 AM EDT up reply actions

dcguy has a point--Bally's spot in the order comes up, and he's not pitching anymore.

Make the other pitcher face more than the minimum, Nats.

"If you ain't got the pants, you ain't got a chance." --PerryMason (on the sartorial component of being a Real Ballplayer)

by Doghouse on Sep 18, 2011 9:22 AM EDT up reply actions

I have had enough of Balester

Hes had his chances, show flashes of potential, and then returns to being crappy. He cant be a setup man, or a MR. He cant go long enough to be the long man, hes really of no use to this club. Him Slaten and Maya are all in line for a DFA, while Stammen way of saved his career

LET SEVERINO PITCH!

by jeff550 on Sep 17, 2011 11:55 PM EDT reply actions