100 losses? Not on my watch
For the second Nats night in a row, Teddy didn't run in the President's Race. No sign of him all night. Possibly a hammy. On the field, the Nats blew a late lead, stayed hitless until the 6th and didn't strike out any Dodger til late. Off the field, the stands heard a test of the Emergency Broadcast System, and the Kiss Cam ended in disaster when a young woman held her popcorn box between her and the young man next to her, and the box-score crowd of 18,635 saw her lips: "He's my boss."
So, when Chico Harlan wrote his lede, he didn't know the half of it.
Chances are, the Washington Nationals won't transform henceforth into a 99-loss juggernaut, finishing their season with 12 consecutive wins, avoiding the indignity of triple digits. One more loss, and they've got 100 of them. Perhaps it's inevitable. Perhaps it's been inevitable since April.
But if the Nationals somehow go crazy, not losing again until 2010, it'll be no less improbable than Wednesday night's 5-4 victory over Los Angeles — a celebration of microscopic odds, turned right.
Zimmerman hit a three-run shot to break the no-hitter and tie things. Manny in left and Kemp in center stood unsure as a long fly dropped in between them. ("Ramirez said that he was telling Kemp that Cristian Guzman, who was on first, would be tagging up but Kemp thought he was calling him off the ball," LAT reported.) We won in the bottom of the ninth after a fiery Justin Maxwell steal and an Ethier drop in right.
Last game of the year for me.
Manny.
Torre and trainer walk with an injured Orlando Husdon.
Screech celebrates the win.
September 25th, 2009 at 12:20 AM
Lol (re: Kiss Cam). Thanks for the much-needed laughs. : )
September 25th, 2009 at 9:13 AM
All thanks to the camerapersons of the Washington Nationals.
September 25th, 2009 at 10:50 AM
PS — the 100 loses were on my watch, BTW. Sorry!
September 25th, 2009 at 11:07 AM
Chico: "Eleven pitches into the night, they trailed 4-0." Had you all even arrived at the stadium by then? I've heard great stories from past Erik/USAT games that would suggest no.
September 27th, 2009 at 3:47 PM
We were still at the bar when we saw that — it was a rough start….