After the horror of last year, I kind of forgot that watching baseball can actually be fun. Though I did feel bad for the Nats, even while enjoying our win last night. Somewhere around their 5th fielding error, it got hard for me to look at their poor pitcher without tearing up. Then Soriano gave up some runs and I got over my sympathy pretty quick. Nice win, with all of my favorite components: Jones boys homered, Heap threw out a baserunner, Chuckie pitched like the bad ass mother he is, Frenchy walked, and Wicky came through for us after giving up his required base hit and walk in the ninth. (Literally every time? I think it’s close. At this point, I don’t even worry if we’re leading by only one — he’s got to give up that hit, it’s part of his approach. Psychological warfare. Or something.)
I did not have high expectations for Kelly coming into this season, but I have grown to love him pretty quickly. He looks great on second, and he’s already coming around as our leadoff hitter. I’m just so pleasantly surprised by everyone right now, I don’t know what to do with myself. The official site even came up with an article about how gosh darn happy-go-lucky the players have been so far this season. My only complaint about yesterday was the use of Soriano in the 8th. He has pitched in almost every game so far, and clearly needs a break. With a 5-0 lead, why not throw the Vulch in there instead? Oh well.
Apparently the Nationals’ manager called a closed-door team meeting after the game yesterday. I can only imagine the atmosphere in that clubhouse. We were pretty low last year, and it’s hard to enjoy our success in this series while witnessing that familiar despair. But it’s going to be a close race in our division, and we need all the wins we can get. So get out your brooms. Sorry, Nats.
Oh, and I have to give props to Deadspin, one of my favorite sites, for their extremely subtle integration of advertising on the site today. Nice.
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