Strasburg (9-3) left after just three innings because of weather-related issues and had three intravenous fluid treatments. He didn’t return to begin the fourth, tying for the shortest outing of his 33-start career.
Braves officials reported no major health problems among the announced crowd of 26,491. The team credited eight free water stations at Turner Field with helping fans cool off.
Strasburg allowed two hits, three runs and four walks. Throwing 36 of his 67 pitches for strikes, Strasburg struck out four to reach 122, most in the majors.
Strasburg took extra time between pitches and walked slowly between innings. He hit an RBI single and left trailing 3-2 after the Braves’ three-run third.
Nationals manager Davey Johnson came out of the dugout after the third to tell home plate umpire Marvin Hudson that Strasburg was leaving as Chien-Ming Wang jogged in from the bullpen.
‘‘Pretty scary, and he wasn’t talking too good,’’ Johnson said. ‘‘I found out later he got a little dizzy out on the mound. The problem was that he was totally dehydrated. I think the doctor gave him, you know, three transfusions of saline, and he still wasn’t going to the bathroom.’‘
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1. Flynn Posted: July 01, 2012 at 10:02 AM (#4170440)HorrorsCommerce. It's cool, dank, gloomy, windy, and generally the opposite of Atlanta in the dead of Summer.Besides, it's not Strasburg's fault that they're treating him like noted delicate flower John Patterson. They're just protecting their investment. And keeping his insurance premiums low. That's Allstate's stand, what's yours, Jobu?
But maybe I'm just grumpy because I have no power at home (Montgomery County, MD suburbs of DC) and now it's looking like I might not for AN ENTIRE WEEK. IN THE MIDDLE OF A RECORD HEAT WAVE.
I lived in Louisiana for five summers, so I think I know what I'm talking about. But if I ever want to talk about the weather in Colorado again, I'll be sure to check with you first.
The flip side of Eso's warning is that lots of easterners go west and suffer heat stroke because they don't FEEL hot. The fact that sweat evaporates and they aren't a sweaty mess makes them think it isn't that hot, so why go inside.
But I will second Rickey (why in hell is Sam calling himself Rickey?); it feels terrible out there. I worked in the yard for a couple of hours, not at peak heat and felt awful.
And also to second Joe. How does that happen? You can only get dehydrated with the resources at his command by being an idiot.
So there's one point where their plan could be improved on.
Thirding this. I mean, Little Miss Strasburg plays in D.C. to begin with (which I'm assured from this thread is pretty much the absolute pit of hell in the summertime), not ####### Nome, Alaska.
Check with the possibility of other factors than simple temperature, at least.
This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey want's to play baseball.
ParadiseSan Diego. And having been to both Arizona and DC during heat waves, there really is something to be said for both Esoteric's and Bunyon's comments. It is ####### painful to be in old government buildings without airconditioning in a suit. I can't imagine being outside doing something athletic in it.eta: It's over 100 in Pierre, SD? Geez. We need to let more Canadian air immigrate.
If this was really just an issue of not drinking enough fluids it's really weird, I've lived in San Diego all my life and while our heat is dry and not that high (depending on what part of SD) every athlete knows to pound the fluids, especially while in the sun. I assume he has been to other places outside San Diego county, traveling for games,camping in Anza Borrego or Joshua Tree? Even if not you'd think that trainers remind them constantly to take in fluids.
That just doesn't seem fair.
EDIT: And San Diego is not Paradise. That's a couple thousand miles (and change) WSW.
HorrorsCommerce. It's cool, dank, gloomy, windy, and generally the opposite of Atlanta in the dead of Summer.Sounds perfect to me.
Ha! June gloomed! It's always amusing to see the beaches crowded in early June as people come to San Diego on summer vacation... Nooooooooooope. 68 and foggy, #######. Try again in September. (Also, the ocean is freezing cold in June. Again - try September.)
As to the southern heat and humidity... I lived in Houston for a while. The difference between that heat and (for example) Arizona is that you can not go outside without sweating. Literally not possible. You can step outside your door and immediately sit in a chair in the shade (with a cooling beverage) - you will still sweat your ass off.
edit - i want to declare my support for Rickey being constitutional as ####.
Nope. Paradise, Ca is exactly 588.34 miles away, heading mostly N. ;-)
Yeah but it hasn't been humid this weekend. It's been southwest hot, not southeast hot.
Well, record breaking heat is, by definition, hotter than ever before. And IIRC this winter was pretty warm, at least here in the northeast.
And the people who live there will tell you it's aptly named. Constantly and without interruption.
Steroids!
Homer: Oh Lisa! There's no record of a hurricane ever hitting Springfield.
Lisa: Yes, but the records only go back to 1978 when the Hall of Records was mysteriously blown away!
For water intoxication?
Well, that would do it.
Possibly. "Despite" was the article's characterization, not mine.
Hey, that's great to know. I guess it wasn't really 100 degrees five straight days last week.
eta: there were 9 days above 90 in Denver in June, that's a touch above your average June in Washington.
You're the one who was wrong, pal. Saying it hardly ever gets to 100 in Denver is like saying it almost literally never gets to 106 in Atlanta, so Strasburg should suck it up.
This whole discussion is silly. I never once compared the weather in Denver to the weather in DC or Atlanta or anywhere else. That was all Esoteric's fantasy.
I've spent lots of time in very dry climates in higher elevations (6000+ ft), and while it does get hot, I can still stand playing a round of golf in it, though nowhere on earth do I crave water as much as I do in locales where it is 90 degrees with a dew point in the 30s.
some of you should join me at the diner for breakfast tomorrow
cash only
(Too soon?)
utter and complete hogwash. i've been in wash. in the summer, and atlanta in the summer. there is no comparison. they are both at higher elevations than new orleans, and there is some relief at night.
new orleans is all at sea level or lower, surrounded by swampy ground. it is the most miserable summer city in the US, period.
But maybe I'm just grumpy because I have no power at home (Montgomery County, MD suburbs of DC) and now it's looking like I might not for AN ENTIRE WEEK. IN THE MIDDLE OF A RECORD HEAT WAVE.
It's cute when non-Chicagoans complain about the weather.
the old bickering session is over breakfast
warning that several did stints in the south pacific or the middle east or places with crazy heat
That was enough Chicago for me. Wonderful city, but I can't take that in March.
I like in Oakland, and the weather is almost always pleasant. Today I was disappointed because it was in the mid 60s, and not the low 70s, as I had expected. So there.
Yep. No use in starting your garden early in SD County, either--you won't see tomatoes until July regardless of how early you get your seedlings in.
I'll take umbrage with the claim that SD County isn't as close as we'll ever come to a North American paradise, though, June gloom and all.
(Seriously, I scheduled an impromptu 4th of July vacation with my gf because I needed to escape this hellhole and we figured that Seattle and Vancouver were guaranteed to give us nice, cool, 60-70 degree weather. And also because I've never been to the Pacific Northwest despite actually being a Mariners fan.)
If I could live in a place that had Chicago-style winters all year 'round, but was also in the U.S.A., I'd move there tomorrow. Nome, AK here we come!
That was enough Chicago for me. Wonderful city, but I can't take that in March.
Well, this past March we got a solid week of 80-ish temps. Should've paid us a return visit.
It was a freakishly mild winter/early spring, to be sure, but "snow piled up everywhere" in March is also atypical.
Every few years, we get that flukish summer where the temp goes above 90 once or twice (instead of the usual 30 or 40 times), and it's absolute paradise.
This summer is not that summer. I'm not looking forward to the next week's weather.
Well, you're in for a treat, as 60-70 is where we've been for most of the past 2 months. Hopefully the sun will peek through while you're here and you'll get to enjoy some outdoor activities.
I haven't turned my AC on once while I have lived in DC or NoVA in the three years and counting that I've been here.
And then he was shot.
Everything's relative, really. I do find it interesting how often baseball players, supposedly young and fit men, have to be hospitalized or treated with intravenous fluids or what-not, for incidents that the rest of us would truly just have to deal with. But as noted upthread, their employers will spare no expense to keep them in good nick.
It's pretty easy to screw up, I do it occassionally, I think the difference is just that when I do it I hork a gatorade and pass out in the shade; when they do it, somebody calls a waaahmabulance.
This.
I grew up in the DC area, lived here most my life before I moved to the Big Sleazy for a few years.
DC has nothing on NO.
The first two weeks I lived there I didn't see the sun once-it just rained non-stop.
When it cleared, it was like 110 with 99% humidity for months on end.Brutal heat that hit like a wall, made DC seem like a nice cool place to live. But it's not so much the heat that gets ya, it's the humidity. Between the swamp and the latitude, NO is tropics level hot.There's no place in the US quite like it
People mow their lawns at 6 AM because it's insanity to do it later...which says everything AFAIC
In Georgia everything's more relative than in Colorado.
Wait... explain.
I used to be able to get by with just fans in my younger years, but I can't do it any more.
But other than the hot and humid summers, the weather in the D.C. area generally speaking isn't really all that bad. That crazy winter we had a couple of years ago was definitely an anomaly.
That said, you can't compare a city like Washington to New Orleans. DC Summers can begin as early as mid-June, but in nearly all years you'll have bits of relief during between then and the beginning of July. Last Monday our high was only 79 with low humidity. And the worst Summer weather here almost never lasts all that much beyond Labor Day, and often eases off by late August.
By contrast, New Orleans Summers start earlier, end later, and are even more likely to have long stretches of unbroken misery than Washington, hard as that may be for us Washingtonians to believe. I also doubt if New Orleans ever has the equivalents of Washington Springs or Autumns, which some years can make us feel we're in Southern California.
OTOH we're still stuck with Dan Snyder, and not even Bountygate can match that for pure punishment, let alone a mere thing like weather.
I haven't turned my AC on once while I have lived in DC or NoVA in the three years and counting that I've been here.
And I once knew a guy who walked around in a T-shirt and shorts in 5 degree temperatures. Like you, he either possessed some Godlike power of mind over matter, or more likely, he was simply insane. (smile)
You see that a lot in Wisconsin and Illinois or at least I did. Husky teenage boys walking around in the snow in long shorts and crocs or snadals and socks. Are you stupid?
Yeah, but at least we don't freak out over 3 inches of snow. Boston actually has relatively decent weather. Sure it rains pretty much every day from mid May to mid June, and it's humid in the summer, but it's neither that hot nor that cold due to being on the coast and it doesn't get nearly as much snow as inland.
Minneapolis was the best place for the difference in weather you got from dead winter to dog days of summer. From below zero fahrenheit with more wind than Chicago for a couple weeks each winter to your annual summer 10 day heat wave with high humidity and temperatures topping 100 for a few days. The summers aren't so much bad as whiplash from the winters.
It was my second trip there; my first was for my first honeymoon, in mid-May '98. Then they were in the midst of a month-long drought, and it was well before the height of summer, and it was still the worst humidity I've ever experienced.
I lived in North Dakota for several years. One year, the range between our high and low was about 140 degrees. Where I live now, it's usually ~ 45 degrees (High of ~ 90, low of ~ 45).
Wait... explain.
Because your sweat doesn't evaporate as easily
High Mean Dew pointNew Orleans 90 82 74
Washington 88 79 66
Atlanta 88 79 68
Chicago 83 74 62
Denver 88 73 48
It's the dew point that's the killer. The average top heat index (what the heat+humidity roughly feels like) for New Orleans is 99, for Atlanta it's 92.
EDIT: The average high heat index in Denver is only 85 -- less than the actual average high temperature. Low humidity is a good thing.
And Chicago is miserable right now, but it's generally not that bad in the summer, by American standards. It averages 23 90+ days a year -- not a huge number. There's often a breeze, there's the lake to moderate things, and dew points in the 70s are not especially common. It's also rare to have brutal summer temperatures start in May or early June and persist into late September and early October, like they can in more southerly places.
The record for Minneapolis was back in 1936. -36 on January 22nd, 108 on July 14 for a 144 degree difference. While I was there the biggest gap I can figure out was 2009, yearly low around -20, annual high around 100 for a difference of 120 degrees. The thing about the winters, though, is that you get used to them. The average January high is in the teens, and there's usually a cold snap that keeps the thermometer down around zero for a few weeks. When it bumps up to 30 degrees after that, and the sun is out, it feels like late spring.
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