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Less-Than-Perfect Nats Lose Again
Carlos Beltran homers off one of Jason Bergmann's rare pitching mistakes.
(By Preston Keres -- The Washigton Post)
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"I'm just missing pitches," Zimmerman said, obviously frustrated at hitting .236, at going an entire week without an RBI. Dmitri Young flew out, Kearns walked and Heilman was replaced by lefty Scott Schoeneweis. With the bases loaded, Church smashed a ball to the right side.
"Hit something," Church said he thought. "Hit a rock. . . . Two feet here, two feet there, it could've cleared the bases."
Instead, Franco snapped it up. And that left the Nationals just one more opportunity to execute the fundamentals. Flores singled to lead off the ninth against Mets closer Billy Wagner, wielding his 97-mph fastball. Pinch hitter Josh Wilson had -- yes, you guessed it -- one job: bunt him over. What did Wilson see?
"Not the ball hit my bat," Wilson said, "which is what everybody should have saw."
He took the first pitch for a strike, fouled off the next, and then Acta removed the bunt sign.
"I'm not striking out any position player bunting," Acta said, so Wilson struck out on his own.
"That's something that I definitely don't take lightly," Wilson said. "That's one of my jobs, to be able to come in and get a bunt down. When I don't get it down, it's unacceptable."
Three little episodes involving one simple, fundamental baseball play. Because the Nationals couldn't pull them off, a zero remained on the board next to their name as the Mets celebrated, departing town with another win that might have been a loss.
