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Nats Fan in Exile's avatar

Great to have the fun of checking the wild card standings every day now. Who would have thought?

gonatsgo1's avatar

Not only that. I was looking at the win total and with only about 10-12 more wins the Nats will have reached (or surpassed) my predicted W total for year that we made before opening day.

Just amazing!

Nats Fan in Exile's avatar

Not getting a ton of hype as his deserving teammates at the top of the order, but Nasim is batting something like .340 this month and has a 2.1 WAR this year.

Donna Will's avatar

Nas is sneaky good.

peter wood's avatar

I think he is hitting about .250 now too. That is very good for him!

Andrew Cain's avatar

I sure hope the Nats are trying to extend Foster Griffin. Travis Sykora could come up sometime next year and they could team with Cade Cavalli for a playoff-caliber Big Three.

I just hope the Bennett for Perales trade doesn’t blow up in their face. Bennett is now 6-3 for the Red Sox with a 2.58 ERA in 10 starts.

Brandon Persinger's avatar

Let’s maybe wait until Sykora completes his recovery and rehab and pitches an inning above AA before making him part of anything playoff-caliber.

Andrew Cain's avatar

I said “could” not “will.” Let’s hope Sykora makes a complete recovery and fulfills his promise.

Tim K's avatar

Great lengthy at bats against Hughes to get him up to 88 pitch count after 5 innings. Then Nats promptly feasted on Rockies bullpen to take complete offensive control

markopc's avatar

52-51. I had to do a double-take on that record Mark posted in his article (62-61). Typo alert!

Josh Sager's avatar

Man I really love Cade Cavalli man. Never lets anything phase him. Let’s keep this up against Arizona. Big series this weekend.

GLH aka NatsFan4Ever's avatar

Nice to see the NATS bounce back, like they often do after a tough loss. I'm thinking keep a STRING OF CURLY Ws coming over the next 10 days and then for August & September. I am also hoping what Blake Butera is hoping: “This felt like a really important game for us,” manager Blake Butera said. “I’m sure they all are, hopefully, down the stretch." OH, YEAH!! AND GO NATS!!

Susan H aka pitchingfan's avatar

A string of Curley W's, with many of them coming AT HOME, would be great.

Go, Nats!!

John walker's avatar

Nats currently tied with Dodgers for top OPS in MLB at .771. Not sure if completely up to date on Dodgers (their game is still on-going) but I think current as to Nats, as yesterday they were T-2 with Pirates at .768. And even more impressive, Nats have best slugging percentage in majors at .443. (Dodgers second at “only” .430).

jstodalk's avatar

From the Rolodex of ideas that will never happen but should. .... I watched Scherzer pitch against Rochester today and he looked good. Blue Jays are out of contention. How about the Nats trading for Max for a last hurrah with the Nationals.

peter wood's avatar

That would really be wonderful!!

jstodalk's avatar

Max is "only" making 3 million this year, and I'm sure the Jays would shed the salary. It would take very little in terms of prospects to get him. The only question is whether Max would accept the trade. Neil Young, one of my favorite song writers, said that a man should never return to where he has been.

Donna Will's avatar

We'd love to have him back!

David Smedberg's avatar

I know it’s not 100% true but I’ve started to expect a win each time Griffin or Cavalli starts.

ongoingchrisis's avatar

Eddy Yean is a freaking DUDE. Watch this guy.

joelalt1's avatar

Wht isn't Morales playing? Does anybodt know?