playing spoiler--Nats still won't make it
to the dance
Annoying team, the Nationals. Once again they have made the Phillies look as gormless as Buster, the mascot at Lakewood. Frustrating team, the Phillies. Once again they are not hitting. On Sunday they stranded 11 on base. Yesterday they got just four hits off Tim Redding in a 4-0 shutout. The journeyman Redding shut them out in the season's opening series, too. Shades of ineptitude. The Nats took 3 of 4 from the Mets last week in NY and are bent for sure on doing something similar to the Phillies in D.C. Brett Myers pitched and looked better last night, might even have won the game had there been any offense working for him. The Nats are another ragtag team, even more annoying in that they are averaging under 30,000 per game in their brand-new ballpark. Pathetic. Meanwhile, the Phillies are not getting it done. Where oh where again has the vaunted offense gone?
