If Patterson starts Friday for Potomac, it will actually be AT Frederick. The Carolina League takes its All-Star break after this weekend, and the P-Nats return home next Thursday for 6 days.

Knocked Cabrera outta the box. Oh, those bases on balls, as Earl would have said.

http://recoveringjournalist.typepad.com/recovering_journalist/2007/06/the_very_model_.html

I'll post this a few more times to make sure you get to see it Barry. Thanks for all you do!

http://recoveringjournalist.typepad.com/recovering_journalist/2007/06/the_very_model_.html

I'll post this a few more times to make sure you get to see it Barry. Thanks for all you do!

Ugh... HR to pull it within 3. Will Everyday Colome have to yield to the Chief?

...praying for the Chief...

Way to put it away Chief! Oh you Nats!

Congrats, Chief, on your 100th save!

Let's not forget Micah Bowie. Quality start. But props to the Chief as well.

yay boys! you are all all-stars in my book. :)

Just another ... yawn ... road win. Pay attention baseball tonight...give the boys some props!! Order some crabcakes and call it a night..heh heh heh.

Good point -- I was giddy with the whole 100th thing, but props to Bowie, too.

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Let's not forget Micah Bowie. Quality start.

Kudos to Robert Fick who gave a Big League defensive effort at first tonight..digging three balls outta the dirt including one to end the game.

Kudos to Robert Fick who gave a Big League defensive effort at first tonight..digging three balls outta the dirt including one to end the game.

OMG, Guzzie went 0 for 4 already? Hurry, put him back (in the 2-hole), put him back....

...or maybe it wasn't the leadoff spot that did it to Guzzie. It was Barry's story this morning. Barry, from now on, when someone's hot,leave them alone. ;)

Hmm, Guz didn't do so well at leadoff tonight...

Stick Guzie in the 2 or 3 hole. Put Young in leadoff. Just once. Just for fun.

Especially since we're on the road; I bet we could get some serious first-inning leads... how fun could that be?

"(Remember how I said Lopez walked? Zimmerman just hit a two-run bomb with two outs to tie the game at 3-3.)"

Be thankful you're covering MLB, Barry. If this were an NCAA baseball game, you could have your press pass revoked for blogging during a game.... :-)

(in Jan Brady voice) Dmitri, Dmitri, Dmitri. Guzzie, Guzzie, Guzzie.

Hey. I hit a two-run tater tonight. Where's the love??

Sigh. ya'll never write about me....

... I'm beginning to think that all photos of Micah Bowie - at least all of them that reach this part of the solar system - show him with his mouth twisted grotesquely to the side of his face and his left arm twisted totally and unnaturally out of its socket.

... I hope when those of you who visit RFK every once in a while, see him in all his reality see a normal human being.

Teddy would have easily beat Ketchup, what a lame race.

Aw, shucks. Let's give Schneid some love.

Especially since we might not see him in a Nats uniform come September.

No, not the Schneid -- I thought he was part of the plan, at least for the short term? I've always loved Schneiderman.

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Aw, shucks. Let's give Schneid some love.

Especially since we might not see him in a Nats uniform come September.

Posted by: Hendo | June 13, 2007 08:31 AM

He would have plastered the mustard and we would have relished the win. He'd be on a roll, baby!

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Teddy would have easily beat Ketchup, what a lame race.

Posted by: PowerBoater69 | June 13, 2007 07:32 AM

He does have some grotesque game pix out there. The one at the link below isn't bad, though he seems to be wearing his game face (in that he's not grinning like it's a grade-school photo opp). Maybe it's just my imagination but it always seems to me that pitchers tend to have their game faces on more often than position players do in official team pix.

http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=150295

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... I'm beginning to think that all photos of Micah Bowie - at least all of them that reach this part of the solar system - show him with his mouth twisted grotesquely to the side of his face and his left arm twisted totally and unnaturally out of its socket.

... I hope when those of you who visit RFK every once in a while, see him in all his reality see a normal human being.

Posted by: natscan reduxit | June 13, 2007 06:54 AM

natsfan1a: You are incorrigible.

"He would have plastered the mustard and we would have relished the win. He'd be on a roll, baby!"

The parkway and Camden Yards are nice and all, but don't fail to note that our Class AA Harrisburg Senators are in Bowie this week.

A doubleheader last night, making up a rainout from earlier this month. Interesting outing from Balester who ate the 4-1 loss in the opener, giving up all 4 Bowie runs -- including a 2-run homer -- on 6 hits in 5 innings, striking out 8 and walking 1. Jonathan Albaladejo (say that ten times fast) dropped the nightcap in relief of Dan Foli.

Mike Hinckley, be he prospect or suspect, is supposed to take the hill tonight. Might run out there.

Cringe!

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He would have plastered the mustard and we would have relished the win. He'd be on a roll, baby!

Posted by: natsfan1a | June 13, 2007 09:17 AM

Thanks for the recognition on that recovering journalist thing. Completely out of the blue, but a lot of old writer friends from stops at papers in the past have emailed me because they saw it.

Which means you can stop posting it here. Believe me, I've seen it.

Is the Chief 1.000 on converting save situations since his return? He's only given up one run in that time too, right?

GREAT LINE of the day: "The Orioles' offense, which excels at being stagnant, had nothing for the lefty after Mora's homer."

How about this, just because it makes me happy to point out to all those people (everyone outside of the Nats fan base) that said they would easily be the worst team in baseball:

30. Texas (23-41)
29. Kansas City (25-40)
28. Cincinnati (26-39)
25. Pittsburgh (27-37)
25. Houston (27-37)
25. Washington (27-37)
23. St Louis (27-34)
23. Chicago Sox (27-34)
22. Chicago Cubs (28-35)
21. Baltimore (29-35)

IF I did all that right, then we are only a few games back from being in the middle third of baseball, no? And ahead of several teams that were predicted to do very well this year, including last year's champs and Alfonso Soriano.

I think they are nipping at the heels of last year's champs and the Chicago teams as far as win-loss percentage, but you have hit on one of my favorite Nationals pastimes: having my morning coffee while looking at the MLB standings in the newspaper and figuring out who is currently worse than or tied with us. Take that, talking heads!

Chief may be 1.000 in converting save situations since his return, but he did convert a tie into a loss by giving up that home run in the top of the ninth to lose last Thursday afternoon's game against Pittsburgh. A tie is not a save situation, but blowing a save and blowing a tie generally result in the same outcome: a loss.

Appreciate the candor of this morning's Notebook item on Patterson, even if it is more than a little worrisome.

Will he EVER get his velocity back? If not, does he have enough guile in his repertoire to make up for lost speed?

You're in our thoughts, JP.

Drove up to see the game last night (first time at Camden Yards since the Nats/O's series last year). Had completely forgotten how rude and ignorant most O's fans are.

I was wearing a Nationals jersey and on my way into the stadium I was heckled by O's fans telling me "Nats Suck." After Mora hits his HR, an O's fan sitting three rows behind me (I was in the front row of the upper deck near home plate and never made any kind of contact with this guy) started yelling at me ... something about the O's being better than the Nats, blah, blah, blah, although I really couldn't understand him since he was missing most of his front teeth. Then when I was exiting the stadium another O's fan walks by me and yells "You suck!"

Proud to say that I never uttered a word or made any obscene hand gestures to any of them as I, and most Nats fans, have way too much class to sink to their level.

Go Nats and please take the next two so that we can win this "Battle of the Beltways" series!!

Barry is lucky Manny switched the lineup, otherwise he'd get the blame for messing Guzman up with a glowing feature article.
My wife: "Guzman is 0 for 4?! Nice going, Barry! Put him on the cover of SI next time, whydontcha?"