John Patterson may make his return by Friday of this week against the Orioles, and not a moment too soon. After last night’s 11-3 drubbing in Fenway, Nats pitchers have now surrendered 66 runs over the past eight days. That’s an average of over eight runs per game, for a team that ranked 9th in the majors in team ERA last year. The failures are across the board, with the bullpen and four of the…

The Nats finally enjoyed a day off yesterday after more than two weeks of consecutive gamedays. A winning May seems to have gotten the season back on track after a disasterous April, but the Nats still have to cover plenty of ground if they want to make a run at the top half of the division. Winning four out of the six remaining games on this roadtrip will be necessary to maintain some momentum heading…

A win is a win, right? Sometimes it comes in the form of Wednesday night’s gem: an outstanding pitching dual duel between Houston star Roy Oswalt and Washington rookie Mike O’Conner. O’Conner was great, allowing only a three hits over 6.0 innings and holding the Astros to one run on a Morgan Ensberg homer. Oswalt was even better, mowing down Nats for seven innings before finally allowing Damian Jackson to score on a balk that…

To confirm a story that broke on DCRTV last week (side request to Dave Hughes: can you re-do your page to allow permalinking?), yesterday XM Satellite Radio announced that beginning September 12th, former WJFK radio personalities Ron & Fez will begin broadcasting middays on XM’s High Voltage. Bennington and Whatley will be following long time friends and former WNEW cohorts Opie & Anthony, who were fired from the New York “Hot Talk” station after their…

If you were listening to WJFK on the drive home yesterday, you probably noticed that the normally witty banter of Don Geronimo and Mike O’Meara was on tape, though they were set to be live on the air. Sadly, this is because Freda Wright-Sorce, wife of Geronimo (real name Mike Sorce) died in a head-on collision in Ocean City, MD, Sunday. Sorce, married to Geronimo for 23 years, was a frequent guest on the Don…