Astrocious

 

(Ian Desmond was just part of the problem Wednesday night, making three errors. AP Photo via Daylife.)

"I guess I look at the glass as half-full -- how many times we've had runners out there. If we continue to do that at that pace, we're going to score a lot of runs. We're going to get our hits there. We're just in a rut right now. It's kind of building on guys."
(Jim Riggleman, via Washington Post, 6/3/2010)

Astros 5, Nationals 1: 13 Ks and more missed opportunities than you can swing (and miss) a Nationals' stick at.

At this hour, the Nationals still have several runners stranded on base at Minute Maid Park.

Poor John Lannan probably deserved better for his efforts: 6.1 IP, 8 H, 5 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 1 HR.

Nats drop to 2 under .500: 26-28. They were supposed to get their groove back against the god-awful Astros.

This just in: it's a lost road trip. J.D. Martin, save us salvage one.

Meanwhile...

• Our sentiments, exactly: Suddenly that blown call by Bill Hohn doesn't look so egregious. We feel bad for Ex-Nat Armando Galarraga; but almost feel worse for Umpire Jim Joyce.

• Baseball Jesus makes final AAA tuneup today at 1 in Buffalo. MASN has it on tape delay at 7 (Versus has it live).
  

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Comments

[Swampy]

I am a Tigers fan first and foremost, but I follow the Nats almost more because of where I live... But I'm also a baseball fan, generally. No way does a call that blows a perfect game measure up to a call that changes who wins the game. It's still a team sport. Yes, a perfect game is a ticket to history for the man who throws it (why else would anyone remember Len Barker?), but that call didn't change the outcome of the game. Besides, only Galarraga and Harvey Haddix have ever gotten 28 consecutive outs in one game now. It's a shame -- a damned, crying shame -- but it is what it is, and we move on.