Washington Nationals vs. Atlanta Braves – Box Score – July 16, 2011 – ESPN.

Tommy Hanson should have been in the All-Star Game, but you couldn’t prove it by the way he pitched tonight. In the second, he had a full-fledged Episode, allowing three runs on a single, two doubles, and two walks; it easily could have been worse. The big blow was the single, a dribbler up the middle by opposing starter John Lannan. In the sixth, Hanson gave up a two-run homer to Wilson Ramos, who had been in the middle of the trouble in the second, and this more or less put the game away.

It wasn’t like the Braves were putting much offense up there, not in the sense of putting hits and walks together. Their only runs came in the bottom of the second, a two-run homer by Alex Gonzalez, scoring Dan Uggla, who had earlier walked. They blew several chances to get one run before the Ramos homer with things like Jordan Schafer getting thrown out at third on a ground ball fielder’s choice, and Hanson bunting into a double play. The Braves did put together a couple of singles in the sixth, but that was it; they didn’t get a runner on the rest of the night.