2-3 Livan!

A ho hum 6-1 loss to fall to 1-3. Livan Hernandez starts the next day and lays a 5-spot in inning number 1. Frank leaves him in the game. Nats win.

These Washington Nationals are taking on Frank Robinson's personality. I'm a youngster. I know nothing about Frank Robinson the player, to tell the truth. To me, he has always been an angry 70-year-old man. What makes him angry: steroids; not running out a pop up; ball one; surrender.

Livan Hernandez never surrenders. He can lay a 5-spot in the 1st and live to tell about it. Robinson lets him pitch through it, and I think it's safe to say at this point he's the only one on the staff requested to go on after the opening act bombs like that. Tonight he pitched through 6 innings, and he actually got the win, over Roy Oswalt, no less. The Nats came back with a storm of late hitting, to win 12-8. This club should probably be 0-5.

But they're not.