8/25 Game Thread-ghetto's recovering from being sick yesterday!

[ghettochild]

WASHINGTON (Ticker) -- The Washington Nationals need one victory to match their total of last season when they were based in Montreal.

Washington aims for its 67th win on Thursday in the finale of a three-game series against the Cincinnati Reds.

After winning 11 straight decisions earlier this year, Livan Hernandez (14-5, 3.80 ERA) has two victories in nine starts for the Nationals. He lasted two innings against the New York Mets last Saturday, yielding eight runs and seven hits.

Cincinnati's Brandon Claussen (8-8, 4.50) looks for his fifth consecutive victory. He yielded three runs and four hits in 6 2/3 innings of last Friday's triumph over Arizona.

John Patterson remained unbeaten at RFK Stadium this season by working 8 1/3 effective innings in Wednesday's 5-3 victory over the Reds.

Jose Guillen hit his 23rd home run for Washington, which is last in the National League with 95 homers, including just 34 at home. Cincinnati leads the league with 180.

lineups:

CINCINNATI AT WASHINGTON -- LINEUPS

CINCINNATI                              WASHINGTON                            
                         AVG  HR  RBI                            AVG  HR  RBI   
Felipe Lopez SS         .290  19   63   Brad Wilkerson LF       .246   8   44   
Rich Aurilia 2B         .279  13   53   Jose Vidro 2B           .271   7   30   
Ken Griffey Jr CF       .294  29   85   Nick Johnson 1B         .298  12   57   
Adam Dunn LF            .252  34   83   Jose Guillen RF         .302  23   67   
Sean Casey 1B           .318   8   50   Preston Wilson CF       .263  21   68   
Austin Kearns RF        .245  12   47   Vinny Castilla 3B       .248  10   57   
Jason Larue C           .270  10   48   Gary Bennett C          .248   1   17   
Edwin Encarnacion 3B    .245   5   15   Jamey Carroll SS        .238   0   16   
Brandon Claussen LHP    .026   0    0   Livan Hernandez RHP     .238   2    6   
(8-8, 4.50)                             (14-5, 3.80)

[redsrbetter]

I've got money on this one! Lets go Claussen, get me my victory!

[ghettochild]

its gunna be good

[ghettochild]

f'lo gets a basehit

[redsrbetter]

Other way for Felo! There we go!

[ghettochild]

aurillia walks

2 on 0 out

[redsrbetter]

There we go! RISP with an Aurilia walk. Lets go Junior! Lets take the lead early.

[ghettochild]

force out on second, 1 out runners on the corners.

[ghettochild]

dunn pops up 2 gone

[redsrbetter]

Somehow got out of that GIDP. So we have Dunn up with a sac fly situation

[redsrbetter]

Danget! He pops out on the first pitch. casey can hit Hernandez, lets see what he can do since he isn't in a GIDP situation.

[ghettochild]

casey walks

bases loaded

[redsrbetter]

Bases loaded for Kearns! Be patient here.

[ghettochild]

kearns walks 1-0 reds!!!

[redsrbetter]

Beautiful AB there for Kearns. RBI walk!