OFFICIAL WASHINGTON NATIONALS @ CHICAGO WHITE SOX GAMETHREAD

Tonight's starters: Ross vs Latos.

Nats look to completely shit on the collapsing White Sox tonight, in their first game out of a nine game homestand. Sox fans ready to open their liquor cabinets.


First pitch 7:10PM CST.

Nats fan on board

>latos
oh boy how exciting

I'm ready for .500. Be gentle

What's the deal with latos?

who /suicidewatchSoxfan/ here

LET'S GO NATS

>tfw no qtpie Trea SS

Here we go

At least can we keep the trend of beating non division teams?

>sox will lose again
>usa will lose again

he's awful

You and me Baby.

Good. Ross is young but mature and has electric stuff.

>Both Revere and Michael Taylor in the lineup

That's not good at all. The white sox wl fall to .500 for the first time since mid April with a loss today.

Latos
>Spanish name
>white guy

>8 pitch walk
It's gonna be one of those days again

Soon.

It is good. I'm a Washington fan. They do have a habit of making shitty pitchers look like Kershaw.

>It's a Werth hits into a DP episode

Guys let's ask ourselves. Was the swift and huge collapse the freakish outlier, or was April the freakish outlier?

Is our group of boys actually an over .500 team?

Can they, with still 4 whopping months of baseball to go, be able to turn it around?

All this bad baseball lately has made me start thinking weird crazy thoughts. Here's one of many:

I miss Trayce Thompson.

...

April was the freakish outlier, but the collapse was also an outlier. Just not as big. The lineup is just too weak to compete.

I don't want to get into stupid anime/antianime bullshit, I just want to discuss WSB or the lack thereof in recent weeks, so here

Guys let's ask ourselves. Was the swift and huge collapse the freakish outlier, or was April the freakish outlier?

Is our group of boys actually an over .500 team?

Can they, with still 4 whopping months of baseball to go, be able to turn it around?

Too early in the season to determine if the collapse is out of the ordinary, for this season anyway. Take the last couple years into consideration, then April is the outlier.

>are they an over .500 team
Gut says no, but I want to believe.

>can they turn it around
We'll see if Shields shits the bed tomorrow. If he does, then my guess is no.

>anime

Especially when Robin keeps stuffing the lineup with such prolific hitters and fielders like Jerry Sands, JB Shuck, Jimmy Rollins, Avisail Garcia, Dinner Navarro, Alex Avila, and worst of all statwise, Jose Abreu!

Abreu just needs to off himself already.

if abreu can figure it out I'll believe
but unfortunately I no longer believe that abreu can turn it around
so no, they suck

>Dinner
ha

It's a Ross walks everybody episode.

Here's a challenge:

Justify how Robin Ventura is not fired after a 5-25 run for a team that was leading the entire AL with a 12 over .500 record?

Bonus: Justify how Robin Ventura can go 2-10 against divisional opponents minus the twins and still not be fired.

Thanks abroo

HOLY SHIT THEY SCORED

I miss fleurs

>abroo
>hit

this pitcher is really really bad today

JOSAVIOR

Putting us on the board first again.

Is it that bad for him now? What are the exact stats?

Gordon Beckham and Tyler Flowers have a higher average and WRC+ than abroo
Think about that for a second
>abustu

>after a 5-25 run
wat
It's currently a 6-18 run.

Even if you add the wins vs the twins in, they still have a losing record vs the central

Fuck is wrong with his retarded team?

He hasn't lost the clubhouse yet and his players are still playing, shitshow aside. If he did, I'm fairly certain his ass would have been tossed already.

Personally, I'm on the fence on the Fire Ventura debate. Other than watching what's going on on the field, there are also things happening behind the scenes, and I can't comment on that stuff. If it happens, okay fine, but if it doesn't, it's not happening for a reason.

Managers like Robin don't deserve accurate numbers. Also isn't it 6-21 since the tigers swept us?

No, 6-18.
23-10 start, 6-18 since. 29-28.

Please tell me someone screencapped that Melky face

See
Flowers may have had no bat but at least he had pitch framing and game calling, both our new catchers have neither. Avila makes me particularly disgusted because he's caught several Cy Young winners and just looks like shit now.

Jesus Christ, can't even get to 30

>Strikeout

Ross, pls

Thanks for swinging at a bunch of balls

>blegh

Fuck this team if they only get one from all this. But then again, par for the course.

Just for you.

>JB suck is the DH
Kill robin and hahn and kenny

Kek

Every baseball game you watch for the rest of your life will be called by either F.P. Santangelo or Hawk Harrelson. You get to choose which. Whom do you choose?

I'd probably take Hawk over Santangelo but my god they're both atrocious.

>mfw white sox baseball

Bases loaded and 1 run

Oh

>shitvarro

Oh what I wouldn't give to get Fleurs back

>nats gift the sox a run
Wow, feeling sympathetic tonight.

Beautiful, thanks man

Holy shit throw a fucking strike.

Fuck you dioshit you fucking fatass fucking kill yourself

Save us, Murph

Inb4 Giveback Sox

Let's play everyone's favorite game

It's HOW LONG WILL THE SOX LEAD LAST?

Let's hear it folks

>Latos

>This pitching

T O N Y 2 B A G S
O
N
Y
2
B
A
G
S

Well if you guessed not even HALF A FUCKING INNING

You win. Or lose or whatever the fuck this team

Ends this inning.

Even though it happens literally every time, I still can't believe it.

Fuck you Latos

Fuck you

Go fucking kill yourself

How the fuck can it be physically possible that a fucking team can be so fucking bad?

Called it

Not like its hard to do

Austin Jackson fucking sucks

>abroo
rally over

And HERE WE GO AGAIN FOLKS

>they get another run
Sox give it back in 5...4....

1 out

TODD THE GOD

FUCK YES TODDFATHER

>step out
>todd hits a home run

brb again

*2 outs now

>fraz mashing more than we could ever expect so far
>can't take advantage and still at around .500

Sox have a 3 run lead
Team USA has a 3 goal lead
Who gives it up first?

...

Out of pure curiosity:
During the 6-18 stretch, we've scored in 52* innings. In the following half-inning, we've given back a run 19 times. Not nearly as bad as it feels.
*3 innings weren't counted since they signified the end of the game and thus had no chance to give runs back

Kudos for you for looking up such painful stats.

Also wow a 1-2-3 following inning.

Also try to expand it to the following 2-3 half innings.

>the following 2-3 half innings
I don't think that really qualifies as a giveback. At least, whenever I post about givebacks, it's only the immediate following half inning.

And out of that stretch, only 5-6 games come to mind that were losses that I considered to be fucking piss awful. Other than that, they really didn't lose by a large margin. They didn't check out, they just couldn't pull it off.

Fair enough

>Designated Hitter
>Hitting .130

American League """"Baseball""""

JB Suck is a goddamn joke. Also what a catch.

Damn, that catch.

KC literally getting BTFO
Det BTFO as well
It's like the moment they stop playing us, they fucking suck

nice play

FOR FUCK SAKE LATOS

FUCK

Latos is really bad
more news at 9

Game would be tied if it wasn't for Washington's gift run.

fuck

Pls tell me latos isn't going to stay in the rotation while migo is kicked out

Feel like further venting here but fuck the US vs Costa Rica match was in Soldier Field today?

Fuck I shoulda gone.

considering migo came out of the bullpen a couple days ago, I'm going to say that's exactly what will happen

USA USA USA USA USA USA USA

Dang

>migo in the bullpen while latos is spilling his spaghetti
The shields trade is just making everything worse isn't it