Archive: July 15, 2007 - July 21, 2007

Dmitri Young scratched

So that lineup I posted 45 minutes ago? Throw it out. Dmitri Young has a left heel bruise. He is listed as day-to-day. It apparently happened when he landed on a base wrong during the Houston series. So the new...

By Barry Svrluga | July 20, 2007; 4:42 PM ET | Comments (0)

Minor League Report

So a few housekeeping items first, starting with your lineups, added at 4:05 p.m. Colorado: Taveras -- 8 Matsui -- 4 Holliday -- 7 Helton -- 3 Atkins -- 5 Spilborghs -- 9 (Hawpe being punished for last night?) Tulowitzki...

By Barry Svrluga | July 20, 2007; 12:25 PM ET | Comments (0)

Young vs. Johnson (Plus Detwiler's Debut!)

One other small thing: Nationals signed Hector Carrasco to a Class AAA contract and he's at Columbus. Remember how good he was a couple years ago? Could be insurance if they trade some bullpen arms in the next week. A...

By Barry Svrluga | July 19, 2007; 11:48 AM ET | Comments (0)

Mid-game Guess the Rotation Results

As this has become a borderline laugher -- Nationals lead 7-2 headed to the bottom of the sixth following Ryan Langerhans's three-run homer, driving in Dmitri Young and Austin Kearns, who had walked -- I finally had time to tally...

By Barry Svrluga | July 18, 2007; 2:35 PM ET | Comments (0)

Businessman's special

Quick turnaround today, but I am a big supporter of the weekday day game. You? I'll get a more substantial post up before game time, but wanted to send a reminder that I'll have a chat at 1 p.m. (starting...

By Barry Svrluga | July 18, 2007; 9:53 AM ET | Comments (0)

To bunt or not to bunt? That is the question

So I'll get to tallying up the "Guess the Rotation" votes (around which there seemed to be some good discussion), but I also think there are a couple of things worth bringing up from last night's win over the Astros....

By Barry Svrluga | July 17, 2007; 10:49 AM ET | Comments (0)

Guess the Rotation, Round 3 (Lineups now added)

First off, thanks to everyone who held down the fort while I was on vacation (more on that later). At this writing, we had 716 comments in 11 days, an average of 65 per, which basically proves that my incessant...

By Barry Svrluga | July 16, 2007; 11:51 AM ET | Comments (100)

 

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