Shaking it Up

The Nattos game was great tonight. Dukes was the hero and its great to see the young guys producing and being clutch. But he was hitting .155 before this evening. I stopped watching the day portion of the doubleheader around the seventh when we had stranded nine. Let's see if Dukes can string a few more clutch hits together, combined with just a lot more hits in general. The fact is that there is not one consistent clutch hitter for the Nats right now. No one can hit. Yes we get runners on base but then nothing at all happens but double plays and shallow fly outs. I know we are ravaged by injuries so lets pull guys up.

The guy that is hitting the best right now is Jesus Flowers. He was supposed to be playing AA ball but has been hitting plus-300 ball since we absolutely needed him and called him up. He has been calling great games with Redding and Lannan so the whole theory that he should be calling games with pitchers that he will be playing with in the majors in a few years should be flushed right down the toilet. How about Cory Kasto? Has anyone realized that this guys on base percentage is .667 this year? He was the worst last year but heck he improved, a lot. So maybe it is time to start moving other guys up. Even if they hit like Kasto did last year perhaps next year they hit like he is right now when we could possibly contend. (I know that sounds stupid but look at either team from Florida and its June, still early but it's June and beyond just fluky; anything can happen.) The Nattos can't hit right now so let's find somone who can. We have the sixth- best rated farm team in the league let's see if that means anything. Let's see what Maxwell can do in a pinch-hit situation, or possibly spelling Blastings for a game. We have a couple of road series against the Mariners and the Twins starting on the 13th. Maybe we move D. "voodoo fingers" Young to DH and bring Marrero up to cover 1st while Nicky J. is out. The point is that even if these guys don't hit, the Nats will probably score more than the two runs in the thirty plus innings that they had scored before tonight, where once again it is proven that a broken clock can tell the right time twice a day. Even the Nattos can put up ten. If there is anything positive to being ten games out of first and .500 lets find it. Moving your hitter in the 8th spot to 2cnd would not seem like the smartest idea, but it worked tonight with "Put Up Your" Dukes to win the game in extras. Lets mess around and see what else we can shake up.