Nationals starter Stephen Strasburg pulled off something last night that I would usually say you’ve never seen before. His second-inning fastball ran inside on Marlins batter Brian Anderson, hitting Anderson in the elbow. Then it hit catcher Matt Wieters in the shoulder. Then it bounced off Wieters and caught umpire Brian Knight in the mask.
Surely that kind of magic bullet can only be fired once, right? No, this is the second time in the span of a week that Strasburg has done this very thing. In his start last Wednesday against the Phillies, Strasburg plunked Jorge Alfaro, Wieters and ump Hunter Wendelstedt all with one miracle of physics.