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Washington Nationals Editorial: Examining The Enigma That Is Stephen Strasburg

On a beautiful evening on June 8,2010 in Washington D.C., a sellout crowd of 40,315 saw possibly the greatest single game performance in Washington Nationals history. Stephen Strasburg made his first career MLB start and pitched the most dominant game of his career to date. Strasburg went seven innings and struck out fourteen batters, including retiring the last seven in a row. His fourteen strikeouts became the second most all time in an MLB debut.

Being lucky enough to attend this game, there was an atmosphere at Nationals Park I had never experienced before.