Recently, when Bad Henry(tm) kept showing up, you asked if the Nats needed Heath Bell. Now it’s my turn to ask, do the Fish need Henry?

Tommy Milone goes against Hiroki Kuroda today. Kuroda is due for a good outing, and it’s a coin flip as to which Milone will show up. I’m not sure why Melvin would pitch Godfrey yesterday with Milone scheduled today. On his good days, Milone is what Godfrey aspires to be: a right-handed mushballer with pin-point control. The problem of course is that Baseball Prospectus proved pretty clearly 2 years ago that if you are a righty with under 91 MPH stuff you won’t last at the MLB level. Where’s stat-oriented evaluation when you need it?

Especially if we can get the Angels to take John Buck. Hell, they took Vernon Wells, didn’t they?

Heath Bell once again found his evil twin and thankfully, Ozzie unlike other managers knows enough to go get his closer before the game ends

I like that the team has glaring holes that are managing to be covered up with good defense and solid execution and better luck at the end of games

But you can’t have any of my ribs or dwarf Cornish hens, got that? And I don’t want to catch your toes in my cole slaw, either.

Okay, the factoid – the Feesh are batting .356 with RISP in the four out of six games they’ve won on this homestand so far. Yeah, I know – I’ve been bellyaching up a repressed housewife’s cargo of frustration over the team’s seetuational heeting since the meedle of last season. So, this is a really tonic stat. Let’s see how far it goes.

I’ve noticed that Ozzie has been more or less behaving himself since his Che Guillen phase came and went in an what seems like an augenblick – it sure does seem to be redshifting in a hurry (nyuknyuknyuk). So he’s not running his mouth, and you wonder how he releases all the pent-up idiocy pressure. I think I know now: by yanking his reliever.

Strasburg scuffled, but the offense and Tom Gorzelanny picked him up. Nice to see a Nats starter have an off-day and still win, after weeks of good starts with losses and no-decisions. The Nats have scored 15 runs in 2 games; in April, that was their average week. BTW, Michael Morse is supposed to be back in time for the visit to Fenway in a couple of weeks..

Young Mr. Harper had another interesting game. He took second while Jason Heyward fielded his base hit nonchalantly. He made a poor throw when he had a chance to throw out a runner at second. He hit a very hard line drive to the opposite field off a lefty (Jonny Venters), barely clearing the wall, then did his home run sprint. Stuff happens when Bryce Harper plays. Much, though not all, of it is good.

Gio vs. Beachy tonight. Much potential for a good pitching duel.

Johan Santana also threw a Maddux. Santana’s was remarkable because of all he endured just to get back on the mound, much less pitch a Major League shutout..