The Astros radio broadcasters were going on and on about what a brutal park for hitters RFK is. They're right, of course. Endless foul ground, very distant fences, not much carry on the ball - all make for one low-scoring game after another.

Which means small ball, so despised recently, comes back into its own. Last night the Astros got a run on Everett's infield single and stolen base, plus a single from (huh?) Oswalt. Another run came on an Oswalt sacrifice bunt that the Nationals goofed up.

Wouldn't you know, the other three runs in the game scord on homers. Even at RFK small ball has its limits. And the messup on the sac bunt is the kind of break that mainly went in the Nats favor in the first half, but has gone against them recently.

Dunno if you've seen it yet, but the Washington Post had an article today describing how the distance indicators indicating how far from home plate the fences were were wrong. Most egregiously, the fence was really 395 feet where the indicators said 380.

The article can be found here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/21/AR2005072102417.html

and how cool was it that Roy Oswalt with the career BA of .131 hit the game winning RBI (yeah i know it isn't a real stat - so what)

I was just REAL surprised that he didn't finish the game the way he was pitching...