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    ESPN

    Washington Nationals manager Davey Johnson told Stephen Strasburg on Saturday morning that the team is shutting him down.

    Johnson said it was more mental than physical, and it was clear from Strasburg's Friday start that Strasburg didn't have his head in the game.

    The move comes a day after Strasburg matched his career low by lasting only three innings, allowing five runs in the Nationals' 9-7, 10-inning loss to the Miami Marlins.

    "To be honest with you, I think he just is thinking too much about the decision when we're going to shut him down," Johnson said Friday night. "And he kind of wore it. He didn't like it. But that's the way it is."

    Strasburg, 15-6 with a 3.16 ERA, allowed two runs in the first, one in the second and two in the third, giving up six hits -- including home runs to Giancarlo Stanton and Rob Brantly. He threw 67 pitches and was pinch hit for in the third.

    In his first full season after elbow-ligament replacement surgery on Sept. 3, 2010, Strasburg will finish with 197 strikeouts in 159 1/3 innings.

    "I didn't command the fastball, kept on getting behind in the counts," Strasburg said. "I wasn't able to use my other pitches effectively and they kept teeing off on me a little bit."

    The Nationals, wanting to protect the arm of the 24-year-old right-hander, had earlier said Wednesday likely would be his final appearance of the season, though Washington is likely to see postseason baseball for the first time since the original Senators in 1933.

    Strasburg received a lengthy standing ovation from fans as he jogged out to the mound for what turned into a 23-pitch first inning.

    Johnson said Strasburg may have been distracted by the shutdown talk.

    "I can understand where he's at," Johnson said Friday. "And even in the conversations that I've had with him, he was having trouble sleeping, thinking about letting the guys down. So I understand his mood."

  • #2
    They shouldn't have talked about it. Why distract the team. You have a good chance to win the NL (maybe if WS). I think they are juct as good without him.
    Good Luck to everyone
    Adam

    Richie: [after Gus hits a homerun] Wow and he did it without steroids.
    Clark: What's steroids?
    Richie: Something that makes your pee-pee smaller.
    Clark: There must be steroids in macaroni!

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    • #3
      Originally posted by meaiken View Post
      I think they are juct as good without him.
      I agree that they have some very good starters behind him but there is no way they are just as good without him IMO!

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      • #4
        True u do lose that top starter and replacing him with a #6 i would guess
        Good Luck to everyone
        Adam

        Richie: [after Gus hits a homerun] Wow and he did it without steroids.
        Clark: What's steroids?
        Richie: Something that makes your pee-pee smaller.
        Clark: There must be steroids in macaroni!

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        • #5
          Why come out now and say cause it's mentally and not physically? Go ahead and fuck with his head some more

          Davey Johnson is a dumbass!

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          • #6
            They should've shut him down at the all star break, and started him back up right now

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            • #7
              The whole thing is a JOKE..if I was a Nationals fan i would be pissed, the fuck gets paid to pitch, leave him in to win the WORLD SERIES, isnt this what they play for? What am I missing? Fuck his arm, he blows it out, he blows it out...FUCK'EM

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              • #8
                Originally posted by meaiken View Post
                True u do lose that top starter and replacing him with a #6 i would guess
                Lets not be ignorant here. Their "6th" starter is John Lannan who could be a 2 or 3 starter on a lot of teams. "6th" starter

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