Nationals Beat Reds Again

Nationals 2, Reds 1

Brandon Phillips picked up a bases loaded 2 out grounder up the middle and flipped it to the shortstop for the out.  The only thing was, he threw it behind the back.  With a slow Adam LaRoche running to second, this hotdog play was completely pointless.  Phillips could have stopped, looked at the runner, and slowly tossed it.

Instead he went for the show-off move, which if did not connect would have resulted in a very meaningful run, and kept the bases loaded.  However, Brandon Phillips thought it was a great idea and an amazing play.  We know that because he pounded on his chest two times and then stared down the crowd for a second or two before jogging into the dugout.  Terrible.

Oh I guess a baseball game was played as well.  The Nats won the game 2-1 (Brandon Phillips prolly could care less) behind the strong pitching of Jordan Zimmermann (7 innings, 5 hits, 1 run, 9 strikeouts).  Henry Rodriguez also pitched a great 10 pitch 9 strike 3 strikeout 9th inning for his 8th save of the season.

In Bam-Bam news, Harper went hitless again, and got a nice strikeout 100mph high fastball welcome to the Major Leagues from Chapman.  He has now gone 3 games without a hit in 13 at bats.  (He has 1 hit in his last 19 at bats).  Time to move him back to 7th?

Both Nats runs were on solo homers, one a piece for Espinosa & Ramos.  Later in the game Ramos looked like he tore his ACL...more on that later.

One final game for the sweep in Cinci on Sunday, currently in a rain delay...