sports.yahoo.com - 5/20/2009
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Cristian Guzman's (notes) streak is ALIVE! The Nationals shortstop has now walked in back-to-back games. For the year that makes, um...let's see...two walks for Guzman, total. The major league record for consecutive games with a walk is 22, set by Detroit's Roy Cullenbine in 1947. We're ...
Guzman puts end to Nationals' 6-game slide
sports.espn.go.com 6/3/2009 — Cristian Guzman hit a tiebreaking RBI single in Washington's six-run eighth inning, helping the Nationals beat the Giants 10-6 on Tuesday night.
Guzman to return for Nats
novafantasysports.com 4/28/2009 — MLB.com reports Cristian Guzman will be activated from the DL when he is eligible to return on April 29. He has been out with a strained hamstring and will be slated into the leadoff role for the Nationals.
Guzman was hitting .515 in his first 33 at bats. He is not much of a power threat but ...
Nationals | Guzman records five hits Monday
baseballinstinct.com 4/14/2009 — hico Harlan, of The Washington Post, reports Washington Nationals SS Cristian Guzman (leg) went 5-for-5 Monday, April 13, but sustained a leg injury after recording his fifth hit of the game in the...
For the Nats, April was Forgettable
baseballreflections.com 5/16/2009 — For the Washington Nationals , April 2009 was a month to forget.
March was a bad sign of things to come. The club opened camp with the revelation that the future of the franchise, 19-year-old Esmailyn Gonzalez , was in fact 24-year-old Carlos Alverez Daniel Lugo. A resulting scandal broke ...
Nick Johnson: Back From the Dead
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 5/20/2009 — Nick Johnson was an after thought. When the Nationals signed Adam Dunn, the assumption was that Dunn would play first and that the Nationals would do all they could to trade Johnson. After all, Johnson has been plagued by injuries of every sort in his career and except for a few successful ...
What’s wrong with David Ortiz and What it means for the Nationals
thenatsblog.com 5/20/2009 —
David Ortiz is a unique player who has followed a unique career path. While Big Papi broke into the majors with Minnesota at only age 21, he didn’t have his first 20 homer season until 2002 when he was 26.
That makes five years of a large first basemen in a bandbox ballpark not hitting ...
Nats take it to Lincecum, win 10-6
thenatsblog.com 6/3/2009 —
The scene seemed all too familiar last night as the Nationals trailed the Giants in the late innings at Nats Park. The Nationals batters had given a valiant effort against arguably the most dominant pitchers in baseball, Tim Lincecum, but to no avail, as they trailed 5-4 and ...
Are the Washington Nationals really the worst team you've ever seen?
thenatsblog.com 5/31/2009 —
Right now the club is on pace to go 44-118. This would give them the third most losses in a season in Major League Baseball since 1920. It would surpass them as the worst Washington team ever as the 1909 Senators went 42-110, and it would staple them as the official embarrassment of Major ...
Nick Johnson–A Long Strange Trip It’s Been
seamheads.com 5/19/2009 — He is the quiet pro digging out Ryan Zimmerman’s long throws from across the diamond. Nick Johnson is not the guy with the thirty-game hit streak. No, he is the old man in the Washington clubhouse, the only Nationals player who knows–perhaps too well–the long strange trip ...
