Linda Holmes: This Nats game is now essentially two hours old. It’s the bottom of the fourth. It’s 13-5. There has already been a rules issue over emerge the ball is out of play if it’s sitting on the ledge behind home plate and nobody can find it.

This Nats game is now essentially two hours old. It’s the bottom of the fourth. It’s 13-5. There has already been a rules issue over emerge the ball is out of play if it’s sitting on the ledge behind home plate and nobody can find it.

Meanwhile, I went to a game yesterday that ended in 2 hours and 4 minutes.

Yeah, the pitch clock can’t do anything about 18 runs scored (and many left on base!) in the first four innings.

You've been in DC longer than the Nats, I think. Are you a Nats fan or do you have older allegiances? I can't quit Boston but it's been 40 years since my Mass days, and although I enjoy a good Mets game it's just a substitute.

I love reading your recent baseball reporting. I'm from Germany, where baseball is not really a thing, except...turns out it is, in a very small way, and my kids now both play (t-ball and our equivalent of Little League). It's a very tight-knit community since we're so much in the minority 1/x

(pretty much all other children play soccer), it's a lot of fun, and while at the beginning, I knew nothing beyond how there's a bat, a ball, and bases, I am now understanding more and more. A year or 2 ago, I wouldn't have understood any of what you're saying, but now I feel like I actually do! 2/2

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