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(Zack Greinke's 4th inning HR off of Jason Marquis snapped a 3-3 tie. The Brewers never looked back. Screen grab via MLB.com)
"It was a terrible road trip. One and seven, that's a bad road trip."
(Jim Riggleman, via Nationals.com, 5/25/2011)
Bleeping Nats.
Brewers 6, Nationals 4: Greinke screws Nats over again for the first time since before Christmas: Go-ahead HR, 10 Ks.
Surprise! Jayson Werth isn't happy!
(Henry Rodriguez torched the lead in the 8th. Screen grab of TV/MASN.)
Where was Storen in the 8th? Coffey?
Brewers 7, Nationals 6: Remember when the Nats had a 6-2 lead in the 4th? That was awesome. Riggleman leaves it up to Henry Rodriguez to finish torching lead in the 8th.
Clippard didn't help with BB/HR combo in the 7th.
Livo finally gets a little support. Nothing to show for it again.
6 games under .500 (21-27), and the S.S. Riggleman is taking on water...
"You go through these things. There’s no team that goes through a season without hitting some periods like this. You like to never concede to that, but I would say no team ever goes through a season without going through some bad times. The key is to get out of those bad times as quickly as possible."
(Jim Riggleman, via Washington Post, 5/24/2011)
Brewers 11, Nationals 3: Gorzelanny stunk. Nats' offense stinks. Storen, Slaten blow up in the 8th.
(Sweet. via @stras37.)
Hallelujah! Stephen Strasburg threw off a mound for the first time today since that dark, dark night in Philly last August. Let the record show that Baseball Jesus is also Tweeting about speeding up time, perhaps considering experimenting with time travel. That's pretty awesome, too.
Slow and steady, Stras...see you in Washington in April 2012...
[Update: The blog is now live at www.natsenquirer.com.]
Dear Readers,
There comes a time in every blogger's life when he/she posts a navel-gazing farewell post, declaring the end of "the blog". Unfortunately, tonight is kind of that night for this here blog, The Nationals Enquirer. Not by choice, mind you.
Sometime in the next few days you will only be able to read us over at www.natsenquirer.com. The blog will now be known as "Nats Enquirer" from here to eternity; this blog should not be confused with (nor was it intended to be) a certain tabloid whose headlines you probably read in the checkout line at the grocery store.
When I started this blog in the winter of 2005/2006, I didn't really know exactly what I wanted it to be, and if you peek back at the archives, that's pretty apparent. But I knew two things for certain: I wanted it to be fun, and I didn't want to get sued -- and I promised myself that if it stopped being fun and/or lawyers came knocking, I'd shut it down and move on.
Well, here we are many years later, and let's just say that after a great deal of soul-searching, we've decided not to shut it down, but to move on. And before you know it, www.natsenquirer.com will be running smoothly as usual and delivering the usual high-quality content you've come to expect, like screengrabs of TV and bad puns in the headlines and YouTube clips of Bryce Harper. Beyond the name and address, it'll be business as usual.
Thanks for reading through the years. Hope you had as much fun here each day as we did. We'll see you on the other side over at NatsEnquirer.com.
(Note: The title of this post was shamelessly lifted from Capitol Punishment, the best Nationals blog there ever was.)
(Jim Riggleman hands his lineup card to John McLaren following Riggles' first inning ejection on Sunday. Pssst...Jim...Bernies foot was on the plate. Screen grab of TV/MASN.)
O's take first round of 2011 Battle of the Beltways
Orioles 2, Nationals 1 (Sunday): Just one mistake by Jordan Zimmermann, and the tired refrain of missed opportunities. Two, three, long fly balls fall just short?
Orioles 8, Nationals 3 (Saturday): Payback. Friday night a distant memory; Nats' offense returns to form.
(Jayson Werth rounds the bases after connecting for his second home run of the game. Screen grab via Nationals.com)
Nationals 17, Orioles 5: Where did THAT come from? A Beltways Blowout for the ages.
Everybody hits! Except Stairs and LaRoche, of course.
Another year, and the heated rivalry between the sub-.500 Nats and the sub-.500 Orioles resumes.
Can't you just feel the excitement in the air?
