While Washington Nationals righty Tim Redding took his one-hit bid into the eighth inning Wednesday night, Ryan Zimmerman pulled off his own heroics.
The 23-year-old third baseman smoked a 1-2 pitch the other way, straight into the right-field stands in the sixth (his second) to give the unbeaten Nats their third win of the season with a 1-0 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies.
Zim also flashed some leather, making a sweet diving stop on a stinger by Pat Burrell to avoid trouble in the seventh.
Redding, who at one point retired 14 straight, surrendered a Pedro Feliz single in the second and walked three over seven innings. Red out-dueled Phillies stud Cole Hamels, who allowed one run on five hits over eight innings of work.
This marks the first year since 2003 -- back in Montreal Expos days -- that the team has started their season 3-0. In fact, it seems Redding has adopted an A.J. Pierzynski Loves Journey attitude on their season's outlook:
"We believe," he said.[Nats320] | [We've Got Heart]
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And boy do we love us D'Meat HooK! He has gotten so fat!! Ha!
Amen to that.
Tim Redding from Rochester, New York!!!! Yipppppeeeee! Us minor league cities gotta take advantage of every opportunity we can to grab some notoriety.
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Is that Dmitri Young there congratulating Zimmerman, or Bake McBride?? Wow....
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