Former Washington Senator Harmon Killebrew, who hit 573 home runs — many of them of legendary length — over a 22-year career as one of the most feared sluggers in the majors, died today in Arizona. Killebrew had been battling esophageal cancer, and had announced earlier this week that doctors had diagnosed his affliction as incurable.

Oh, John Lannan, things were going so swimmingly until that seventh inning.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)Phillies 5, Nationals 3: Everything was smooth sailing for John Lannan and the Nationals. Willie Harris and Cristian Guzman were hitting at the top of the order, the Nats capitalized on an error by Chase Utley, and Lannan retired 14 of 15 batters between the second and the sixth innings. Sadly, in the majors, they play a full nine, and…