The losses keep on coming
Submitted by Jeff on Sat, 09/01/2007 - 8:10am.
- Remember back in May, when the Nats returned home after a road trip with a long losing streak, they were able to snap it and turn their season around? History, unfortunately, does not repeat itself. Tim Redding has one bad inning, allowing three runs (and his other innings, while scoreless, weren't always pretty), but that was all the Giants needed as they stifled the Nats offense, after a little rally in the first and a Austin Kearns solo homer in the fourth. Nats lose their seventh straight, 3-2, to the Giants. (Box score)
- When rosters expanded at midnight, the Nats called up pitchers Matt Chico and Winston Abreu, the first of several players the Nats plan to bring up as the minor league season winds down. Chico will get the start Sunday, replacing Mike Bacsik, who pitched in relief last night; Abreu will go in the bullpen.
- Hardly a surprise: John Patterson won't pitch again this season, electing to have surgery to "decompress" his radial nerve in his right arm. Patterson expects to undergo surgery in the next 10 days, but both he and Nats GM Jim Bowden expect him to be ready for spring training "barring further complications". (And those would never happen, right?)
- Barry Bonds was in the house, but not in the Giants lineup, last night, and that seems to suit Thom Loverro just fine as he keeps his focus on the home run record holder.
- Whatever happened to Andy Dunn, the Nats' former farm director who suddenly resigned in March? He's spent the summer working as a consultant for the Vancouver Canadians minor league team, effectively filling the vacant role of team president and impressing his new bosses. "We'd like to have Andy with us on a full-time basis," said Jake Kerr, team co-owner.