Your Washington Nationals Could Be The Worst Hitting Team of the 21st Century

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 Your Washington Nationals Could Be The Worst Hitting Team of the 21st Century
Washington obviously couldn’t hit water if they jumped ship right now. But are they making history or just plain rotten? According to the Post’s Chico Harlan , some San Fran scribes think it’s the former: I’d estimate about a half-dozen visiting ballwriters (some vets) told me this weekend that the Nats had the worst lineup they’d ever seen. Yup, ever. Well, ... [link]

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Another afternoon game
Published 6/12/2008 by Pat (noreply@blogger.com) at Where have you gone, Andy Van Slyke?
... Tom Gorzelanny and Jason Bergman are set to go at it in about 15 minutes here, with Gorzo hoping to take advantage of the Nationals' historic ineptitude at the plate in the way that Ian Snell did last night. His opponent got the tar beaten out of him in his last start by the offense challenged Giants. If the Pirates win today, they'll have a chance to get to .500 in Baltimore this weekend, where I'll hopefully be in attendance Saturday. I'm both all for that and completely sure that it won't happen now that I've mentioned it.

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