{"id":9459,"date":"2010-08-16T09:09:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T13:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/?p=9459"},"modified":"2010-08-16T09:09:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T13:09:34","slug":"strasburg-okay-nats-take-diamondbacks-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2010\/08\/strasburg-okay-nats-take-diamondbacks-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Strasburg okay; Nats take Diamondbacks series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; <\/strong>They local hype for <b>Stephen Strasburg<\/b> is over. The Washington Nationals rookie righthander, who had packed them into Nationals Park for nearly two months is no longer much of a gate attraction. A 21,000+ crowd yesterday was confirmation. I was their in attendance with my better-half; she had not seen Strasburg pitch in person yet.<\/p>\n<p>A solo home run to Adam LaRoche put the Arizona Diamondbacks ahead 1-0 in the second inning. Compounding that was a throwing error by Strasburg over the glove of 6&#8217;6&#8243; first baseman <strong>Adam Dunn<\/strong>. Two unearned runs scored. Strasburg got out of the 2nd without allowing any more damage, but was not as efficient as he has been in the past. Still, after 5 innings, Strasburg had thown about 85 pitches and had 7 strikeouts to show for effort. He also had 3 runs from the Nats offense taking him off the hook for a decision. <strong>Ivan Rodriguez<\/strong> had knocked in a run in the bottom of the second and <strong>Josh Willingham<\/strong> hit a two-run homer in the 4th. By the way, both times my wife has been to Nationals Park, Willingham has homered.<\/p>\n<p>Things got weird in the bottom of the fifth. A young man in a red shirt entered the field from the third base and pranced around looking for attention. The crowd and 3rd base coach <strong>Pat Listach<\/strong> noticed him before security did. He was joined by several others, including a few who tried to spread out a sign, but were unsuccessful. It took a few minutes to apprehend all of the runners and I could not help but think of Yakety Sax as they all ran around. My thoughts were along the lines of &#8220;how dare they interfere with <strong>Roger Bernadina<\/strong>&#8216;s at-bat like that &#8212; have they no decency?&#8221; Such  shame I never learned what their cause was during their um, demonstration &#8212; I could find it and link to it, but I don&#8217;t want to encourage that sort of thing. <\/p>\n<p>Actually, they were apparently, protesting Strasburg, who did not come back in after that for some reason. I think that is a weak excuse by <strong>Jim Riggleman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tyler Clippard<\/strong> relieved Strasburg and pitched two innings. <strong>Ian Desmond<\/strong> knocked in <strong>Adam Kennedy<\/strong> to put the Nats up 4-3 in the 7th. <strong>Ryan Zimmerman<\/strong> added a homer to left to end the scoring at 5-3. <strong>Drew Storen<\/strong> retired the side in order in the ninth for his second save.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, leftover curly W pretzels are offered for a donation behind left field after the game. We gave them a dollar each. <\/p>\n<p><strong>OTHER RECAPS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/08\/15\/AR2010081502198.html\"><b>Stephen Strasburg strikes out seven in Nationals&#8217; 5-3 win over Diamondbacks<\/b><\/a> &#8211; <i>The Post<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natsinsider.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/strasburg-solid-but-bullpen-wins-game.html\"><b>Stras solid, but bullpen wins game<\/b><\/a> &#8211; <i>Nats Insider<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Lastly, I was going to write about the false courage of Rob Dibble re: commentary on women fans, but <a href=\"http:\/\/dcbb.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/cant-spell-douchebag-without-d-i-b-b-l.html\"><strong>Capital Punishment finally addressed the most interesting point of the whole thing<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; Dibble wasn&#8217;t talking about baseball either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; They local hype for Stephen Strasburg is over. The Washington Nationals rookie righthander, who had packed them into Nationals Park for nearly two months is no longer much of a gate attraction. A 21,000+ crowd yesterday was confirmation. 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