Sign of the times? The Nationals beat the Phillies on Sunday 16-8. All but two runs were scored as a result of home runs... and those two were scored on a triple by Eaton.
Juiced ball? Juiced players? Or, just strategy -- every player swinging hard and trying to get the ball in the air -- never mind the strike outs? Yesterday's game was notable, I suppose, in that there were only nine strike outs -- three by the Phils, six by the Nats.
In the Nats-Phils game Left Hook Lacey attended on Saturday, 20 of the 29 runs were scored on homers.
Let's see... that's a total of 53 runs in two games with 42 scored on home runs.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013