Sunday afternoon’s win was a big one.  Not because it marked the sweep of the Arizona Diamondbacks.  Not because it was the eighth in a row for the surging Nationals.  No, Sunday’s win was a big one because it was a day of firsts for some of the Nats’ “young” rookies.  J.D. Martin earned his first career win by going five strong innings, allowing only one run, coincidentally to the first(there’s that theme again) batter he faced via a leadoff home run to Trent Oeltjen.  It was his best outing of the year.  Just to keep making this post read like [...]

The league’s worst team looks to catch a break when the league’s second worst team comes to town in the form of the San Diego Padres.  As dreadful as Washington’s pitching has been this year, the Padres’ bats have been just as bad.  Outside of Adrian Gonzalez, there is nobody on the Padres roster that should strike fear into the hearts of our inexperienced staff.  And inexperienced is the key word this weekend.