MVN - Most Valuable Network

That’s 27!

Consecutive scoreless innings against the D-backs mind you. (I feel like a joke about scoring is necessary AND unecessary at this time.  I’ll lean toward unecessary.) 

Seeing all the zeros got me thinking about shutouts (I’m not very imaginative).  Has a team ever been shutout 3 games in a row against the same opponent?  Yes - for example in the great pitcher’s year of 1968, the Cubs were shutout 3 consecutive times by the Cardinals.  Bob Gibson pitched the 3rd game, a young Steve Carlton pitched game #2.  (The Cubs lost two of the games 1-0. Carl Yaztremski led the majors with a .223 batting average. There were 6 HRs hit all year long.  And so on…) So the Nats haven’t reached rarified air yet.  What about 4?  Well that’s a lot tougher to figure out (since 2 at the end of a series and 2 at the beginning could cause it and back to back shutouts aren’t really newsworthy). Let’s hope we don’t get there.

That was shutout #11 for the Singly Joes, on pace for 20 this year.  How bad is that?  If they stay on pace it’ll be the most number of times a team has been shutout since the 1992 Cubbies.  Get to 21 and the 1976 White Sox say hello (in shorts of course).  After that…well it’ll take some work because the 1972 Rangers had 27.   You may remember them better as the Washington Senators v2.0 + 1.   (The team left DC for Texas after the ‘71 season).  It all comes full circle…or something like that.

OTHER STUFF 

When people compare your body of work as an umpire to Frank Drebin, you’re probably not very good at your job.  (unless your job is Queen Saving…which it isn’t Angel)

MLB.com title writers are surprised that more at bats = more hits.  No wonder they all loved Guzman.

Nats doctors respond vaguely to the injury question

“I’ve been involved with college and professional athletics going on 18 years. The constellation of misfortune is striking. I’m sure those of you who cover other teams find this to be a surprising calamity. … The reality is that there are a number of different events that are not related, and most of them are traumatic and unavoidable.”

In other words “Not my fault!”

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