Stephen Strasburg

[Johnny Rockets]

You're assuming the Astros owner and GM are concerned about the future. :nono:

Oh yeah...I keep forgetting Ed Wade is involved in that scenario.

[Squirrel]

0 Walks to boot too.

[SOJA]

With him and this other kid they just drafted the Nationals are building a good team for the future

[tarheelblue89]

The guy is flat out dirty. His control of those pitchers is mind-blowing.

[pstall]

Great Walter Johnson's ghost...WOW

[Happy Panther]

My grandma could get a no decision against the Pirates.

Granted she gets around well for 80 years old but still

[Swarly]

My grandma could get a no decision against the Pirates.

Granted she gets around well for 80 years old but still

The Pirates(before this game) were the team with the fewest team strike-outs in the NL. just sayin'..

Pirates or not, what he did was impressive.

[Guest CatofWar]

Strasburg is a man.

[Johnny Rockets]

The ESPN broadcast was blacked out for me so I had to watch it on MASN2. Sucks because it was not in HD but just listening to Rob Dibble call the game was quite entertaining. After the game he said that he has pitched in a World Series before but even that didn't match the energy in that stadium before and during the game. Good for baseball, and good for the Nats.

[Darth Biscuit]

His pitches were nasty but I want to see him against a major league team.

[faultlessjoint]

He made the pirates look pretty silly swinging at some of those pitches. I hope the kid does well (as long as its not against the braves).

That said the Strasburg bandwagon is giving the Red Sox bandwagon a run for its money. I was at a bar in arlington watching the game last night. Bar was packed, people cheering and clapping every strike he threw. Then when they pinch hit for him in the bottom of the 7th the place cleared out. I mean it was a 2-run game in the 7th and literally 75% of the people there left as soon as they took him out of the game. I'm going to predict right now that significantly more than 50% of attendance at Nationals games this year come from nights when he pitches.

[Squirrel]

Was hoping he was going to pitch when they came up here to Detroit. But looks like he will be starting on the 18th in DC. Will still go to the game but it kind of sucks to miss him pitching.

[Johnny Rockets]

He made the pirates look pretty silly swinging at some of those pitches. I hope the kid does well (as long as its not against the braves).

That said the Strasburg bandwagon is giving the Red Sox bandwagon a run for its money. I was at a bar in arlington watching the game last night. Bar was packed, people cheering and clapping every strike he threw. Then when they pinch hit for him in the bottom of the 7th the place cleared out. I mean it was a 2-run game in the 7th and literally 75% of the people there left as soon as they took him out of the game. I'm going to predict right now that significantly more than 50% of attendance at Nationals games this year come from nights when he pitches.

Meh, I think that is more of fans of baseball than a Strasburg bandwagon. As a fan of baseball, I was cheering him also....it was awesome. Something tells me that a year or 2 from now though, I will be hating him with a passion.

[JakeFlake]

Downright filthy. Saw he touched 101 on the gun a couple of times. Wow, what a performance.