Saturday, August 06, 2005

Pitching and Defense

The Nationals have been on a losing trend for the last couple of weeks. I attribute this mostly to pitching and defense. I suppose an argument could be made that because many of the losses have been by one run, that a little offense wouldn't hurt either.

One encouraging sign is that John Patterson pitched 13 strikeouts in a complete game on Thursday night. If he can keep that up it will certainly help Washington's play-off hopes. Unless Atlanta slows down, a wildcard race with Houston is coming up.

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