The Official Site of The Washington Nationals: News: Cordero to have shoulder examined

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Just clicking? Or ticking?
Published 4/22/2008 by ck at The Nationals Enquirer
"Just clicking. That's all it was. No pain, nothing like that when I was throwing last night. When I got back in the room last night, I was moving my arm around, I had some clicking in the shoulder. I wasn't really sure what it was." (Chad Cordero, via Nationals Journal, 4/22/2008) Just a little clicking? Or was it something worse, tick-tick-ticking? Chief to 'Bama tomorrow to get his shoulder looked at by Dr. James Andrews. Should've known something was up last night when his fastball was only hitting 45. (Photo by Marv Lyons (Corbis) ...

Signs of Life
Published 4/23/2008 by Stephanie at We've Got Heart
The Nationals battled Smoltz and the Braves tonight and grabbed a much needed win, a 6-0 shut out to be exact. Sure the boys got lucky on a few plays, but it was really stellar pitching and key hits that brought the team a 6th win. All the components seemed to click tonight. Yes, it’s only one game, but hopefully tonight we saw a glimpse of good things still to come this season. There was a battle on the pitchers mound tonight. Legend John Smoltz was going for his 3,000th career strike out. It came early in the game when he got Felipe Lopez swinging. Nationals John Lannan hung with Smoltz and pitched seven scoreless innings, his longest career outing. Lannan looked ...

National League News - 4/23
Published 4/23/2008 by Ian at SOX & Dawgs
Astros speedster Michael Bourn is out with a sore groin. Braves pitcher John Smoltz hit the 3,000 strikeout milestone last night. The Brewers traded Gabe Gross to the Rays. Cardinals OF Rick Ankiel got a mental health day off on Tuesday. The Cubs are one win away from 10,000 in their history. The Diamondbacks haven’t needed a closer that much this season. The Dodgers gave Andruw Jones a day off yesterday due to flu-like symptoms. Fred Lewis is firmly entrenched at the top of the Giants lineup. Some members of the Marlins went to visit the Steelers football ...

Put another Curly W in the books (there’s plenty of room for it)
Published 4/23/2008 by Harper Gordek at Oleanders and Morning Glories
The Nats won in a performance eerily similar to the one I mentioned yesterday where Bergmann outdueled Smoltz.  (poor John Smoltz, always getting outdueled by Nats).  Bergmann’s performance was more dominating than Lannan’s (8 IP, 2H, 10K) but Lannan held the Braves scoreless.  It was a big-time pitching performance the Nats needed, and let’s not forget the horrible pitching performance they got from the other side.  Thanks to Jorge Campillo, because who here would have bet on the Nats going into the bottom of the 9th up by only one run?  [The “pessimist is me” would like you guys to take a step back and think of another corollary between Bergmann and Lannan.  ...

Game Thread: New York's "Hated Mets" at Washington Nationals- 2008 Game 22 of 162.
Published 4/23/2008 by e chigliak at Federal Baseball: Front Page Posts
... MLB.com's Bill Ladson's writes today, in his ominously-titled article, "Cordero to have shoulder examined", that the Flat-Brimmed Closer, Chad Cordero felt what was described by Mr. Ladson as a "clicking" noise in his throwing shoulder. The result...the name you never want to hear associated with your favorite players' medical conditon: ...