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Nationals Park gets it's first inside-the-park home run - by the Mets' Angel Pagan - and first triple play - also started by the Met centerfielder.
The Nationals are winning the game currently - Livan Hernandez has surrendered just the single run through 5 - and knuckleballer R.A. Dickey is making his NL debut.
Dickey is the kind of pitcher the Nationals might have picked up in years past. A big league veteran with occasional success, Dickey started the year on a minor league contract with the Mets. At Buffalo he went 4-2, 2.23 in 8 starts, and was tapped to replace Oliver Perez in the New York rotation. The Mets' farm system is somewhat thin on pitching, and Dickey was a cheap option.
Dickey's best start at Buffalo was a near no-hitter: the first batter singled and he retired the next 27 hitters.
Dickey, a former first round pick pf the Rangers, was found to be congenitally lacking the ligament that usually leads to Tommy John surgery, and it forced him to develop the knuckler
