[Added "review forward": Perhaps baseball does not matter too much. Tell that to a few million Bostonians and Yankee fans in the northeast! But, many things truly do matter in life, such as economics and food and health and peace and war... Here in America (the United States) and a few other parts, people pay attention to baseball, especially how the winners go in October.
So, for what it's worth...]
Yesterday was a big game for the Nationals. Win or go home. At Safeco...AT and T...San Francisco.
They battled with the best pitchers that they could, and the dam burst in the 7th inning, thankfully in the way of the now underdogs. The Nats made the recent ace Bumgarner throw a costly error, which resulted in a huge 3 run inning. Bryce Harper added a thunderous home run in the 9th and the Nats finished as winners, now trailing 2-1 in the best of five series.
Gio Gonzalez will face the Giants' Vogelsong tonight. Big game. If the Nats can repeat the trick, they will return to the friendly confines of DC. Otherwise, it is over.
Like 2012, when the wunderkind Bryce was a rookie 19 year old. They were eliminated then by St. Louis, who seem to be doing their magic against the talented but curious LA Dodgers.
Speaking of Bryce, with his 4th post season all time home run, he enters elite company of only four major leaguers to ever hit that many homers in the playoffs before turning 22 years of age. The others include Micky Mantle and a couple of other legends.
Meanwhile, the 22 year-old for the Los Angeles of Anaheim Angels, Mike Trout, who is killing Bryce as the newcomer of the century to baseball and all everything in all statistics is eliminated from this year's playoffs by the Kansas City Royals. You cannot have everything, Mike. But you own the stats compared to everybody else, for now.
And Bryce is accomplishing things in a smaller, but perhaps more winning way, bigger stage. Like his great defensive contributions yesterday and before.
Not bad.
Jeyson Worth and Adam LaRoche have been non-productive so far, so here is hoping they can waken their bats tonight and onward. We shall see.
On a side note, college football is crazy and my favorite team lost its Heisman candidate QB to an injury and lost the game itself which ends their hopes at being a dark horse contender for the new end of season 4 team playoff. Can't win 'em all.
But you don't have to in baseball. Just win more...And keep playing!
Go Nats!
Blog it, EMC.
So, for what it's worth...]
Yesterday was a big game for the Nationals. Win or go home. At Safeco...AT and T...San Francisco.
They battled with the best pitchers that they could, and the dam burst in the 7th inning, thankfully in the way of the now underdogs. The Nats made the recent ace Bumgarner throw a costly error, which resulted in a huge 3 run inning. Bryce Harper added a thunderous home run in the 9th and the Nats finished as winners, now trailing 2-1 in the best of five series.
Gio Gonzalez will face the Giants' Vogelsong tonight. Big game. If the Nats can repeat the trick, they will return to the friendly confines of DC. Otherwise, it is over.
Like 2012, when the wunderkind Bryce was a rookie 19 year old. They were eliminated then by St. Louis, who seem to be doing their magic against the talented but curious LA Dodgers.
Speaking of Bryce, with his 4th post season all time home run, he enters elite company of only four major leaguers to ever hit that many homers in the playoffs before turning 22 years of age. The others include Micky Mantle and a couple of other legends.
Meanwhile, the 22 year-old for the Los Angeles of Anaheim Angels, Mike Trout, who is killing Bryce as the newcomer of the century to baseball and all everything in all statistics is eliminated from this year's playoffs by the Kansas City Royals. You cannot have everything, Mike. But you own the stats compared to everybody else, for now.
And Bryce is accomplishing things in a smaller, but perhaps more winning way, bigger stage. Like his great defensive contributions yesterday and before.
Not bad.
Jeyson Worth and Adam LaRoche have been non-productive so far, so here is hoping they can waken their bats tonight and onward. We shall see.
On a side note, college football is crazy and my favorite team lost its Heisman candidate QB to an injury and lost the game itself which ends their hopes at being a dark horse contender for the new end of season 4 team playoff. Can't win 'em all.
But you don't have to in baseball. Just win more...And keep playing!
Go Nats!
Blog it, EMC.
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