Daily Recap: Oh No Joe!

The Phillies lost.
The Nationals lost.

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Oh Joe!!!!! What happened to you?!?!? Where is the Joe Blanton we saw until mid-May? Did you kidnap your 88-pitch shutout throwing identical twin and where did you stuff him in a closet? Can he come out for the pennant race?
So Joe Banton comes out of the gate and gives up 2 runs in the first inning and I'm like, "Oh great! Here we go again." Now he has given up 19 runs in his past 13 2/3 innings since starting the season 4-2 with a 2.81 ERA.
Carlos Ruiz was not in the starting line-up again today and his replacement, Brian Schneider homered. Schneider has been pretty good offensively this season but its not Chooch, so I hope everything is okay with Chooch and hopefully he'll be back in the line-up tomorrow. Nothing much happened offensively besides that 3 runs were scored by the Phillies and the Mets pitcher hit a home-run.

Another night, Another triple :) Is there any thing Bryce Harper can't do? His three-bagger (which would have been a home run in almost any other ball park) and Corey Brown's suicide squeeze for his first big league RBI were the highlights in an otherwise un-exciting game. Edwin Jackson was solid, but got only one run of support because the Nationals cannot, and I repeat CANNOT!, seem to win a game started by Anibal Sanchez. Today Chein-Ming Wang makes his first start of the season for the Nats, who still lead the NL east by 1 and 1/2 games.

Ciao!
~ TBC