With the passing of Thanksgiving, it’s time to take a look at the next edition of the watchlist – 2019, our ninth one since the inaugural watchlist in November 2010. While everyone and their grandmother seems to favor rankings, I’ve always preferred to not focus on enumeration because (A) it’s specious (B) it leads to …
Greetings from the Crystal Coast of North Carolina. No, we don’t have family here – we were offered a week here at ridiculous price (and this was before the hurricane) and decided we’d rather chill on the beach than deal with craziness in the DMV. As it turns out, it looks like we’ll be missing …
James Bourque—pronounced “Burke”—was the only player added thus far to the Washington Nationals’ 40-man roster ahead of the deadline for the upcoming Rule 5 draft next month. It’s also one more than the number of 2015 collegiate draft picks and 2014 high-schoolers and IFAs who have been protected: ZERO. Even if more are added tomorrow, …
For eight innings, the Rafters shut down the Javelinas, 2-0. But the Salt River ‘pen, which has held leads this fall the way Florida conducts clean elections, collapsed yet again with two runs in the 9th and a one-out HR in the 10th to lose, 3-2. The game-winning HR was served up by Nats farmhand …
Salt River reverted to the mean yesterday as they coughed up two runs in the bottom of the 8th to close out the AFL regular season with a 4-2 loss to Glendale. Carter Kieboom and Daniel Johnson were in the starting lineup at 2B and CF respectively. Kieboom went hitless again, but drew a walk …
Salt River broks a five-game losing streak with a 4-3 win over Glendale to secure a berth in the 2018 AFL Championship Game. Three Nationals saw game action: Tres Barrera (pictured) was the DH and went 2-for-4 to improve his fall average to .261 Jake Noll batted behind Barrera in the lineup and was 1-for-3 …
The Rafters keep losing—as they did for the fifth straight game yesterday, 4-2—but so doe everyone else except the Javelinas, who defeated the Solar Sox to reduce the magic number for one for Salt River to lose to play Peoria this Saturday. Four Nationals saw game action in yesterday’s loss: Carter Kieboom started at 2B …
Carter Kieboom’s fourth single of the afternoon yesterday put Salt River on top, 4-3 and on the verge of snapping a three-game slide. Instead, the Rafters channeled the 2018 Washington bullpen for the third time in four games and coughed up the game-winning runs for a 5-4 loss to the Javelinas to extending their losing …
Salt River’s losing streak extended to three as they dropped a second straight game to second-place Mesa, 7-2.
Four Nationals got into the game – two starters and two relievers:
The gap between the Rafters and the Solar Sox is down to 1½ with four games left to play. The two teams do not play each other this week.
Back-to-back two-out singles in the top of the 9th enabled the first-place Rafters to draw even with the second-place Solar Sox to tie the game at 4-4. But the spectre of a bad bullpen that haunted the Nationals in 2018 regular season somehow made its way to Arizona again as Mesa got a run in …