Oh Beautiful...

2-4…....run scored…....fab defense….....

KRod, Figgy for dropping down the bunt that started the rally, and Aybar are all close

Defense, 2-4, smart baserunning on the error and eventually scored the winning run.

8IP. People just do not do that anymore.

Says Fangraphs, with honorary vice-Panther as the Admiral.

panther i think has to go to lackey, although aybar is close.
and btw, of frankies 23 pitches, the nats managed to touch (foul off) only 2 of them

Aybar deserves one I guess.

for sure

big time heads up taking 2nd on that single in the 8th, w/o that he doesnt score on GA’s basehit

but nice 5 game lead the halos got going on…......i like it!

Angels hitters failed to hit a HR, despite Bergmann having given up 11 HRs in just 53.2 innings coming into this game.

Hopefully it’s a lesson learned for the Angels not to take the Nats too lightly.

i did some number crunching tonight on big john

career k’s – 977 (thru tonight)

career w’s – 84 (thru tonight)

he’ll for certain hit 1000 career k’s this year, and if he stays lights out all year i think there is an outside shot of him getting to 100 career wins this year, does anybody else see this budding into a possibly HOF career? or am i thinking about this too soon?

perhaps Kotchman for hitting the pitching hard all night and making some nice plays.

Came after a tasty catch, don’t forget.

For manufacturing that run. That was the singular effort of the game.

Going with Big John despite the throwing error and the fact that shutting down the Nationals is nothing to boast about.

Props to:
Aybar: Great D, great hustle
GA: Game-winning hit and an SB from Old Man River
Desmond: Manufactured run, nice D

with Figgy (wreaking havoc on the basepaths in the 7th) and GA (GWRBI) getting a tip of the hat as well.

John was good, but giving up the go-ahead run on a bone-head play DQ’s you in my mind.

L-O-T-S of panther action in the crowd, almost shocking. For instance, one young couple had their one-year-old dressed up in a rally monkey costume, and were shaking him around above their head during the 8th inning rally. I shite you not. Saw a lot of early ‘80s-era jerseys, and caps from the recent throwback night. Couple kids there had road-tripped from SoCal w/ a bunch of buddies in an RV, with matching hand-made T-shirts commemorating the trip, and all eating homemade sandwiches.

I took tons of pics, had pretty killer seats, and a great time was had by all. Particularly during the vicious Rodney King-style beatdown that T.R. & Thomas Jefferson laid down on Abraham Lincoln out on the warning track. Unbelievable.

Stadium’s pretty nice; kind of austere with the whole battleship gray/blue thing. Elijah Dukes is just huge, and Milledge was hitting the cover off the ball.

Oh, panther? I’d give it to Aybar. That DP he turned in the first - a real game-changing event, the way Lackey was struggling up top - was just incredibly quick. He’s something special on defense.

once again, our starting pitching won us the game, not the offense.

my panther pick

Then Frankie, Andy, Aybar

Frankie at 31 saves. Going for the record (57). Not even half way through the season yet.

POTG….....easily for me…..is

REV….....great timing on the new “rally” thread…...people are overlooking that contribution to the win today.

i agree with Zookeeper—how about some love for the clutch RBI from my man GA???

I almost ruined it for us with the dumb throw I made to allow the go-ahead run to score in the 7th inning. But you know what, just like always, our guys got my back

oy.

Meathead singing take me out to the ballgame and his puny clap (huhu) for a nats rally during dadadadadada.

No kudos on beating this horrible team,

He should have been credited for a third hit, if the 1st base ump hadn’t blown the call when he drag bunted and clearly beat the Felipe Lopez throw to first but was called out. He was stellar last night.

although my first choice was lackey. even if loduca sac flies, he goes 8 innings like 5 hits, and 2 earned