Record: 6-4, 4-3 ACC
Saturday, August 24
vs. Florida State (W 24-21)
Saturday, August 31
vs. Georgia State (W 35-12)
Saturday, September 7
@Syracuse (L 31-28)
Saturday, September 14
vs. Virginia Military (W 59-7)
Saturday, September 21
@Louisville (L 31-19)
Saturday, October 5
vs. Duke (W 24-14)
Saturday, October 12
@North Carolina (W 41-34)
Saturday, October 19
vs. Notre Dame (L 31-13)
Saturday, October 26
@Virginia Tech (L 21-6)
Saturday, November 9
@Miami (W 28-23)
Thursday, November 21
vs. North Carolina State (7:30 PM, ESPN)
Friday, November 29
@Georgia (7:30 PM, ABC)
Covering the game, Joe Morgan and Jon Miller. Ah, what a way to start the year.
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A solid performance of the national anthem. Now onto the presidential first pitch.
I wish they’d hurry up.
50/50 reaction for W – wtg.
Bush’s pitch is high and inside to a chorus of boos and applause.
Sounds about right.
For the record, the game was supposed to start 12 minutes ago. This thing won’t be over until midnight EDT.
While we wait for the real first pitch, it’s worth noting that the Braves will go back to Atlanta as soon as this one is over to face the Pirates and then get an off day Tuesday.
Joe Morgan had trouble pronouncing “Matt Diaz”. This is going to be fun.
And here we go…and Kelly Johnson fouls one off.
And Johnson goes down on a strikeout. Ah well.
Okay, seriously, these blue alternate uniforms suck. Black lettering on a blue shirt? Who the hell thought of that?
And Yunel Escobar gets on base after fouling off a few pitches.
I still think he should be batting lead-off ahead of Kelly.
Chipper Jones flies out on the first pitch he sees.
Though it was a ball earlier, Teixeira strikes out looking. Middle of the first.
First hit for the Nats and their park as Christian Guzman gets a broken-bat base hit.
Hudson throws away a pick-off play and Guzman advances to 3rd. Ugh.
And Hudson gets himself a strikeout. 1 out.
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Jon Miller just said “our friend Bill James”. I doubt Joe Morgan talks to Mr. James on any sort of basis.
Meanwhile, Hudson strikes out Zimmerman. 2 down.
Nick Johnson singles to right and advances to second, scoring Guzman from third. 1-0 Nats.
2-0 Nats, ugh.
LoDuca grounds out 5-3, and we move on.
Ugh. McCann rockets a ball off the top of the right-field wall and gets thrown out at second. Ah well.
Hudson gets out of the 2nd easily. They are apparently then going to have the president in the booth for some reason.
Braves finally get a base hit. Escobar up with 2 outs now.
Nevermind, KJ gets picked off. Middle of the 3rd.
Bush in the booth. Very awkward for everyone involved.
1-2-3 inning for Hudson. End of 3.
Chipper homers to left center, 2-1 Nats.
I think W has more vision for baseball than he does for America.
I love it when this happens. Francoeur bounces a ball down the 3rd base line. 3rd baseman lets it go to see if rolls foul, and at the last second it hits the bag, dying on impact.
Infield single.
McCann flies out to center, middle 4th. brb
Anyway, had to pick up dinner. Saw the top of the 5th. Ah well.
Hudson with another 1-2-3 inning. I could get used to this. Now we just need some offense…
The new 2k sports commercials are really obnoxious.
Hudson is rolling, offense is not. End 6th.
End 7, running out of time…
End of 8, last chance… Got the guys we want coming up, though.
Teixeria doubled to right center, Prado pinch ran for him. Passed ball scores him, tied at 2 with McCann batting and 2 out.
McCann flies out to right, middle 9th.
Er, left, whatever. Anyway, let’s hope we get some free baseball here.
Moylan gets Guzman, 1 down.
2 down as Milledge tries to slide into first. Zimmerman up…
Ballgame. 3-2 nats. Goodnight.
Fuck.