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AFL Update: Oct. 22, 2015

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Nick Lee failed to retire a batter in the 9th, giving up the lone run in a 1-0 walkoff by Glendale over Salt River.

A single, walk, and another single was the game-winning sequence as just three of Lee’s eight pitches went for strikes.

Three — yes, three — other Nationals saw game action.

Christopher Bostick led off and played 2B but went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts. Defensively, he took part in a double play, had three putouts and two assists and committed an error.

Spencer Kieboom was the DH and reached base twice with a single and a walk for an 1-for-3 game that got him off the interstate with a .200BA (2-for-10) in four games thus far.

Finally, Wirkin “For The Weekend” Estevez made his AFL debut with an inning of relief, though he walked two.

The loss drops Salt River to .500 at 3-3. The two teams switch venues and rematch tonight.

12 Commments

  1. You don’t like Nick Lee much do you?? Every chance you get to point out when he has an inning like that, you do! However, when he’s done great, you either don’t mention it or give him little credit. You are bias on a lot of the players. Should have put all that in big bold letters, underlined and all. Even though Bostick went 0 for 4 you still found something positive to say. I have read your opinions for a few years now, and luckily your opinion doesn’t really matter when it comes to decisions being made.

    1. You are bias[sic] on a lot of the players.

      If you have indeed been reading my opinions for a few years now, then you’ve apparently forgotten the numerous times I’ve reminded folks that I am aware that the players, their significant others, and their families are reading when folks start to stray from remarking on a player’s performance to his personality or character. I would appreciate the same courtesy.

      1. I thoroughly enjoy this site, Luke, and appreciate the work that you put in to keep it going even amid all the other pressures of life. Illegitimi non carborundum, as the Romans would say.

  2. Ty Luke
    I just have to say this : Chris Young and Miguel E
    In playoffs while the vaunted rotation sits @ home .

    1. Heh. We go through this all the time when former Nats do well; versions of “gee, where could the Nats find a player like that?” Of course, there are generally some intervening terrible seasons that, if the Nats had held onto the player, the fans would be going “why is [x] still on the team?!?” Emilio Bonifacio has gone through this cycle a couple of times, since he seems to mix in a good season every three years or so, surrounded by some combination of mediocre/terrible.

    1. KW. He was needing college experience .
      That’s like saying why didn’t the Expos sign boddiker
      Out of HS??

      1. Not saying they should have/could have signed him, just noting another Nat connection to the playoff hurlers.

  4. Wow Matt Skole at shortstop in Syracuse on the big board? Careful they may start accusing you of being like me! 😉

  5. Hehe. The only way he plays shortstop is if Syracuse can have a combination of Danny Espinosa and Andrelton Simmonds playing 6 feet in front of him…. 😉

    1. I checked Skole’s Ga. Tech bio, which is still posted, to see if he played any SS there. He didn’t, but he did start four games at catcher (!) as a soph.

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