CLIPPARD!!!!!!!

He did it again!
That vulture did it again!
The Nationals are 3-1 in their last four games.

Tyler Clippard's record in those four games?
3-1.

That's right, he's got the decision in all 4 games.
If the Nats rallied in the 9th yesterday, he would have won 4 games in 4 days!

Instead he has to settle for a mere 3 wins in 4 days.

Remember how I claimed he was trying to make a run at Jack Chesbro's unbreakable record of 41 wins in a season? Well it isn't looking so outrageous now.

Today against the Mets he became the league leader in wins with 7 wins against 1 loss.

If he keeps up this pace, he'll go 33-4 for the year.

Hmm... even at THIS pace he can't catch Chesbro. Man, that was quite a season Jack Chesbro had in 1904.

Not THIS TIME, Tyler Clippard!

He almost did it again.

Tyler Clippard came into another game... his third straight game with the lead... and coughed up the lead.

He did it against the Mets at CitiField in the 8th inning. Ergo part one of his diabolical plot was complete.

He saw that Roy Halladay was rained out in Colorado. Now with the lead wiped out, all he had to do was prevent the Mets from taking the lead, go into the 9th as the pitcher of record and have the Nats score.

And that would give him his 7th win of the season. He would be 7-0... and on his way not only to a 20 win season but also staring Jack Chesbro in the face as he guns for 42 wins this season.

I've already broken down his plan!

But the problem is he let the Mets take the lead... and he was saddled with the loss.

On the one hand, Clippard has a 6-1 record and a 1.88 ERA.
HUZZAH!

He also has 5 blown saves already.

I bet that is more than Jack Chesbro had all year.

I know what you are doing, Tyler Clippard

You can fool most of the people, but you can't fool ole' Sully.

Clippard blew a save the other day but the Nationals rallied the next inning and he got the win.
Funny... he did the EXACT SAME THING the day before.

That's right, he got two wins this weekend, all the while posting a microscopic ERA (0.76) and batting average against (.158.)

And now he is being mentioned in some elite company this year. In this season that is filled with Cy Young contenders in the National League, guess which three pitchers are tied for the league lead in Wins?

Roy Halladay and Ubaldo Jimenez each have 6 as you would expect with their Cy Young caliber starts. But who also has 6?

Tim Lincecum? Nope.
Adam Wainwright? Nope.
Barry Zito? Nope.
Johan Santana? Nope.

That would be Tyler Clippard.

He's got 6 wins and zero losses...

Going into this year the only thing I knew about Tyler Clippard was he won a game for the Yankees against the Mets in the Subway Series...

And that all of humanity was spared hearing John Sterling call him "The Yankee Clippard" for year after year.

But now here he is being the ultimate scavenger.

What if he has 14 more instances in the rest of the year like he did twice this weekend?

What if he becomes a 20 game winner? Does he get included in the Cy Young discussion?

So THAT'S his plan!

He wants to be a Cy Young contender because he's convinced all the voters just look at win totals.


What if it happens 35 more times in the next 4 1/2 months?

Then he will tie a once thought unbreakable record of 41 wins of Jack Chesbro who did it for the 1904 New York Highlanders (Now the Yankees.).
(Can you imagine winning 41 games in a season?)

Well the only way it ever could be broken is by a vulture reliever like Clippard... blowing games and then picking up the win with an inning of work... 42 times to the record book.

42 times to immortality.

It's a brilliant plan.


It's diabolical.

I am on to you, Clippard.