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Article: Another Game, Another Nats Loss; Washington Has Dropped 9 of Its Past 11 Games
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- July 5, 2009
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Braves 9, Nationals 8
Reprinted from yesterday's late editions
On the nights when the Washington Nationals do not invent new
ways to lose, they merely perfect the old ways. Since the dawn of
the strike zone, some one-and-a-half centuries of baseball have
proved the value of throwing pitches there. Of course, that didn't
stop Jesus Colome, appearing in a game with the score tied Friday
night, from reiterating the point about what happens when you don't.
If abiding Nationals followers didn't get a sense of impending
doom simply from Colome's emergence through the bullpen doors, they
got it after watching Colome's initial contribution -- six pitches
to start the seventh inning, one leadoff ...