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Wash/Arizona Over 8 1/2 AND 5 inning over 5 +110
Wind is blowing out to right field at 18 mph and the pitching suits us.
Arizona spring training phenom Edgar Gonzalez will attempt to bring his exhibition success to the regular season tonight when the Diamondbacks visit the Washington Nationals in the first game of a four-game series.
Gonzalez, a 24-year-old Mexican right-hander, was 5-0 with a 4.70 earned run average for the Diamondbacks in March, earning the fourth position in the team's starting rotation for this season.
The 6-foot, 224-pounder made 11 relief appearances with Arizona through 2004 and 2005 before making five starts over 11 appearances in 2006, when he was 3-4 with a 4.22 ERA in 42 2/3 innings.
Gonzalez has never faced the Nationals.
An 11th-round draft selection of the Montreal Expos in 2002, Bergmann has made 44 appearances - seven starts - over the last two seasons with the Nationals, going 2-2 with a 5.76 ERA in 84 1/3 innings.
He was 0-2 with a 5.03 ERA in spring training games, working 19 2/3 innings.
Bergmann has no record after two appearances against the Diamondbacks, posting a 5.40 ERA in 10 innings, allowing 10 hits and six runs.
On Wednesday in Colorado, Matt Holliday went 4-for-5 with a homer, drove in four runs and scored twice, as the Rockies routed the Diamondbacks, 11-4, to conclude their three-game series at Coors Field.
Eric Byrnes homered and doubled for Arizona. Miguel Montero ended 2-for-4 and drove in a run.
Left-hander Doug Davis (0-1), acquired by Arizona in a six-player trade that sent Johnny Estrada and Claudio Vargas to Milwaukee, allowed three unearned runs on eight hits with five walks and six strikeouts in five innings.
In Washington, Dmitri Young's run-scoring single in the bottom of the ninth lifted the Nationals to a 7-6 victory over Florida.
Ryan Church went 2-for-4 with a double and a three-run homer for Washington, who had 16 hits in the contest.
Rookie Matt Chico made his major league debut for Washington and pitched four- plus innings, allowing six runs on eight hits. Chico was part of the deal that sent Livan Hernandez to Arizona last season.
Jon Rauch (1-0) notched the victory in relief after recording two outs in the ninth.
The Nationals won five of the six matchups with the Diamondbacks last season, including a perfect 3-0 mark at home, and is 9-3 against the club since moving to Washington.
Wash/Arizona Over 8 1/2 AND 5 inning over 5 +110
Wind is blowing out to right field at 18 mph and the pitching suits us.
Arizona spring training phenom Edgar Gonzalez will attempt to bring his exhibition success to the regular season tonight when the Diamondbacks visit the Washington Nationals in the first game of a four-game series.
Gonzalez, a 24-year-old Mexican right-hander, was 5-0 with a 4.70 earned run average for the Diamondbacks in March, earning the fourth position in the team's starting rotation for this season.
The 6-foot, 224-pounder made 11 relief appearances with Arizona through 2004 and 2005 before making five starts over 11 appearances in 2006, when he was 3-4 with a 4.22 ERA in 42 2/3 innings.
Gonzalez has never faced the Nationals.
An 11th-round draft selection of the Montreal Expos in 2002, Bergmann has made 44 appearances - seven starts - over the last two seasons with the Nationals, going 2-2 with a 5.76 ERA in 84 1/3 innings.
He was 0-2 with a 5.03 ERA in spring training games, working 19 2/3 innings.
Bergmann has no record after two appearances against the Diamondbacks, posting a 5.40 ERA in 10 innings, allowing 10 hits and six runs.
On Wednesday in Colorado, Matt Holliday went 4-for-5 with a homer, drove in four runs and scored twice, as the Rockies routed the Diamondbacks, 11-4, to conclude their three-game series at Coors Field.
Eric Byrnes homered and doubled for Arizona. Miguel Montero ended 2-for-4 and drove in a run.
Left-hander Doug Davis (0-1), acquired by Arizona in a six-player trade that sent Johnny Estrada and Claudio Vargas to Milwaukee, allowed three unearned runs on eight hits with five walks and six strikeouts in five innings.
In Washington, Dmitri Young's run-scoring single in the bottom of the ninth lifted the Nationals to a 7-6 victory over Florida.
Ryan Church went 2-for-4 with a double and a three-run homer for Washington, who had 16 hits in the contest.
Rookie Matt Chico made his major league debut for Washington and pitched four- plus innings, allowing six runs on eight hits. Chico was part of the deal that sent Livan Hernandez to Arizona last season.
Jon Rauch (1-0) notched the victory in relief after recording two outs in the ninth.
The Nationals won five of the six matchups with the Diamondbacks last season, including a perfect 3-0 mark at home, and is 9-3 against the club since moving to Washington.
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