Oleanders has a good post on the pitching matchup in today's game. We are not enamored with Tony Armas (4.29 ERA), but even we would have to assume from the ERAs that the matchup with Luke Hudson (7.35 ERA) favors the Nationals. Not so fast, says Oleanders, and we find their logic to be pretty convincing. We still think that Armas has the edge, but it's not by much.
Given that the Reds have the hitting edge, what looks like an easy game could be much harder than we expect.
The Nationals have been a .500 team in August (one game below, actually), and they have to start winning series if they're going to be the wild card team in the National League. If Armas can pitch well enough for the Nats to win tonight, the rest of the series looks pretty good (Patterson and Hernandez pitch the last two games).
We think that what we just did is called looking ahead, and the Nationals clearly haven't earned the right to do that. Let's just hope that Armas finds a way to pitch another productive game. Go Nats!
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