Tuesday, November 17, 2020

#169---PHI @ WAS, 4/13/2009




Scoring note: You can see a briefly-lived endeavor by me to track the number of strikes thrown by the starting pitcher each inning in addition to total pitches. I quickly decided that this space would be better used for a running total of pitches.

This was a wild home opener for the Nats against the defending champion Phillies. Each team got five of their runs on three homers, with the biggest the three-run shot from Ryan Howard in the seventh after the first two batters of the inning were plunked. The Nats tried to come back with a pair of two-run blasts from Adam Dunn and Ryan Zimmerman, but Brad Lidge recovered from the latter with a pair of strikeouts and a grounder to first.

Some of the names on the Washington side are great: Lastings Milledge, Cristian Guzman, Elijah Dukes, Nick Johnson (this team would finish 59-103).

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