Didja miss me?
Damn. OK, well, did you miss this?
Yup -- that, my friends, is Aaron Rowand ripping a grounder to short for a 6-4 forceout.
Actually, Rowand had a couple of pretty good performances the last couple of days. On Saturday, he had four hits and made a couple of really tough catches, one of them a slicing liner that forced him to change the shoulder he was looking over. You know, the kind that pantsed Rob Mackowiak every single time.
The only blemish came in the field, however, when he just missed on a dive and played a single into a triple. On second thought, he'd fit right in playing next to Jermaine Dye once again.
But while it was fun watching Rowand and Tadahito Iguchi (two flyouts to right-center in two pinch-hit appearances) once again, I was more amazed at the Cavalcade of White Sox Rejects that comprises a significant portion of the Washington Nationals' roster.
1.
Jon Rauch. I was aware of this one.
2.
Arnie Munoz. He's back in the big leagues as a September call-up for the Nationals. There's still no reason to miss him. He still can't hit the strike zone, doesn't miss many bats, and he also has one of the worst pickoff moves I've seen from a lefty not named Andrew Miller.
(And because it's fun,
here's the box score from Munoz's major-league debut.)
3.
D'Angelo Jiminez. His numbers were never all that bad, but I remember him being one of the dumber players to ever don the White Sox uniform, at least between the lines. Zero instincts -- pretty much the anti-Jose Valentin.
At any rate, there are photo galleries for both
RFK Stadium and
Washington D.C. in the Photos section. I'll be playing catch-up from this weekend later tonight.