I figured Fox would have the Dodgers vs. the Nationals as their Saturday game. What better qualifications does any of today's games have over this contest? The two best records in the NL, Billingsley vs. Strasburg, Bryce Harper making his Major League debut for the Nationals and Matt Kemp, the best all-round player in the majors, should be enough to catch someone's attention at Fox Sports.
Instead they offer Brewers-Cardinals, Angels-Indians and Royals-Twins. We're talking a combined record of 49-69 for these six teams with only one having more than ten wins. Both the Dodgers and the Nationals are 14-6. Riveting baseball!
A little preview of the Dodger-Nationals game is in order. Billingsley is 2-1 with a 3.04 ERA, a WHIP of 0.93 with 19 strikeouts in four starts. Strasburg is 2-0 with a 1.08 ERA, a WHIP of 0.92 with 25 strikeouts in four starts. Matt Kemp has 10 home runs, 23 RBI (note to Mike Greenburg: no "s" after RBI) with a .453 batting average for the Doders while Andre Ethier has a .299 BA with 5 HR and a league-leading 24 RBI. Adam La Roche is leading Washington's offense with a .333 BA. He has 3 HR, one of which was a two-run blast of Kershaw last night, and 16 RBI. Bryce Harper, 19 year old LF for the Nationals, has been called up from Triple-A Syracuse, where he has hit .250, to take the roster spot of Ryan Zimmerman, who has been placed on the DL and will make his Major League debut tonight.
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It's no fun when you can't see the game you WANT to see!
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