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Dr. D had to double-take, check whether this was the best team in the history of Washington D.C., if not the history of baseball. We thought we were going to see a very good team. We didnlt know we were going to get buzz-sawed by the best team the Mariners had played all season. Them and the early Oaklands.
As it turns out, there was a D.C. team as good as this ... in 1924 the Washington (AL) Senators won the World Serious, led by some dude named Walter Johnson, who that season won exactly 5% of his career 417 games.
Ninety years on, Stephen Strasburg provided a taller, less-sidearmed facsimile of the Big Train. Like Walter, Strasburg would have slaughtered anybody any lineup that ever existed on Saturday night. Does he always locate that fastball like that?! And the changeup was vintage Pedro Martinez, popping a parachute and sailing down-away. Like Pedro's change, Strasburg's was so devastating that he could (and did) throw it right down the middle. He was unpossible. It was like watching Chris Young +10 MPH, plus the Pedro change.