{"id":6338,"date":"2013-04-01T16:50:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T20:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=6338"},"modified":"2013-04-01T16:50:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T20:50:39","slug":"happy-2013-season-nats-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=6338","title":{"rendered":"Happy 2013 season!  Nats Win!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2291\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/strasburgSteven-centerfieldgate.com_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2291\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2291\" title=\"strasburgSteven-centerfieldgate.com\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/strasburgSteven-centerfieldgate.com_-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strasburg gets the Nats off to a quick victory.  Photo via centerfieldgate.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A great opening to the Nats 2013 campaign. \u00a0A beautiful day at the park to sneak away for a 1pm game time (not that I got to; meetings, meetings).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen Strasburg<\/strong> looked completely dominant, retiring 19 overmatched Marlins in a row after a game-opening single and departing after 7 complete innings on just 80 pitches. \u00a0He relied on location as opposed to power on the day, recording just three strikeouts but getting a ton of weak grounders for outs. \u00a0If this had been September in the midst of a playoff push he&#8217;d likely have thrown the complete game (or at least one more inning considering that the other two hits he gave up were to the middle of Miami&#8217;s order in the 7th; he was set to face 6-7-8 in the 8th for &#8220;easier&#8221; outs). \u00a0But its April; no need to burn pitches\/IP now when we&#8217;ll need them later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tyler Clippard<\/strong> comes in, shaky at the start but gets the outs he needed for the hold. \u00a0And we get our first look at new closer <strong>Rafael Soriano<\/strong> in an ideal situation for a closer; 2 run lead, leading off the 9th inning. \u00a0He didn&#8217;t disappoint, punching out two to get the save.<\/p>\n<p>On the offensive side, <strong>Bryce Harper<\/strong> continues right where he left off with his torrid Grapefruit league campaign by clubbing homers in his first two at-bats. \u00a0Wow; that&#8217;s a way to start your season. \u00a0Who says that Spring Training stats are meaningless? \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Nothing more today. \u00a0A good first day of the season.<\/p>\n<p>ps: 500th post! \u00a0I had to post something fun for the record books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great opening to the Nats 2013 campaign. \u00a0A beautiful day at the park to sneak away for a 1pm game time (not that I got to; meetings, meetings). Stephen Strasburg looked completely dominant, retiring 19 overmatched Marlins in a row after a game-opening single and departing after 7 complete innings on just 80 pitches. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[164,1398,38,128],"class_list":["post-6338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","category-natsgeneral","tag-bryce-harper","tag-rafael-soriano","tag-stephen-strasburg","tag-tyler-clippard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6338"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6344,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6338\/revisions\/6344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}