Today's Starting Pitchers Are Going To Stare At You Now...
The Nationals vs Harang...
Josh Bard - 1 for 10, .100 AVG.
Ronnie Belliard - 8 for 19, .421 AVG, 1 2B, 2 RBI's.
Elijah Dukes - 0 for 3, .000 AVG.
Adam Dunn - 0 for 7, .000 AVG.
Cristian Guzman - 3 for 7, .429 AVG, 1 3B.
Willie Harris - 1 for 5, .200 AVG.
Nyjer Morgan - 3 for 6, .500 AVG, 2 2B.
Josh Willingham - 3 for 9, .333 AVG, 1 2B, 1 HR, 1 RBI.
Ryan Zimmerman - 2 for 5, .400 AVG, 1 2B.
LINKS:
• MLB: Strasburg Negotiations - Yahoo! Sports
Watch: MLB: Strasburg Negotiations-Our Yahoo! Sports baseball writers look at where talks between pitcher Stephen Strasburg and the Washington Nationals are and if he'll sign. on the MLB:Y! Sports: MLB video channel brought to you by Yahoo! Sports.
• SI.com - "With deadline looming, Nationals have a ways to go with Strasburg" - Jon Heyman
"With only a long weekend to go before the signing deadline, there's no evidence of progress in the negotiations between the rebuilding Nationals and Strasburg's agent, Scott Boras. It's possible the sides will not agree by midnight Monday, and that Strasburg will go unsigned and re-enter the draft pool in 2010.
• "Ejections on the rise and Johnny Damon's increase in power" - SI.com - Tom Verducci
"According to a major league source, when the Nats put ineffective outfielder Austin Kearns through waivers, another club actually put in a claim for him... "The Nationals could simply have 'awarded' Kearns to the claiming team to get out from under the contract, Alex Rios style. But just as Kearns was getting claimed, the Nationals placed him on the disabled list..."
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