(Matt Capps and Wil Nieves celebrate after surviving a bases loaded jam with no outs in the ninth inning. Photo by AP via Daylife.)
"It's my nightmare. It's Casey Stengel's nightmare. And it's the future managers of the world's nightmare, that you get that wrong name on there. I look at it 10 times. I have the coaches look at it over and over, and every now and then, one gets by."
(Jim Riggleman, via MASNSports.com, 5/29/2010)
Nationals 5, Padres 3: Weird lineup mixup/protest in the first, near nightmare ninth, but Nats hold on.
Lannan goes seven for the win: 7 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 1 K.
Hammer, Desmania, go deep. Capps saves #17, barely.
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We prefer Desmondium to Desmania.
Posted by: Nate | May 29, 2010 at 03:14 PM
Desmondium--isn't that the chemical element formerly known as Mendozium? symbol AAA; atomic weight = always less than you thought; chief characteristic = can't be accelerated, it just stands there and watches the fast ones go by.
Posted by: Sec3MySofa | May 29, 2010 at 08:11 PM