Game 67: That was......strange.

John Lannan has a respectable ERA, so it's not like we got shut down by someone with Wang's ERA.  That being said.......losing to the Nationals?  Yeesh. Not exactly an exemplary showing.  

I'm also relatively certain that the Wang in the rotation phenomenon needs to come to an end.  Hughes came in to relieve him and pitched fantastically.  It sucks that the roster spot is currently being occupied by a gaping black hole.  It's getting to the point now where games he starts are losses before the players take the field, and if we manage to win the game, we got lucky. 

Now on to the offense.  Alex needs a night off, he's slumping badly.  Again, we faced a pitcher we hadn't seen before and basically did nothing.  What's the deal with that?  And the first pitch swinging......ever heard of working the count?  That's how we get mediocre pitchers out of the game and get to the crappy bullpen.  I don't understand how we can score 9 runs in 3 innings off Johan Santana, but can't hit someone like Lannan to save our butts.  I understand that sometimes even bad teams win a game, I mean it's not like the Nationals are going to go 0-162, but these are games we should be winning.  I don't want to be fighting for a playoff spot come September and look back and say....."here's a whole host of games we should have won" and that's not even counting the 8 or 9 games we've lost to Boston already.  I guess we should be thankful that in spite of that, they're only 3 games ahead of us right now.  Although they're beating the weak NL East teams right now.  We need to be doing that. Let's win tomorrow and take the series.