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WASHINGTON - For his past six starts, Stephen Strasburg has pitched about as well as anyone could ask. Cheap Los Angeles Kings Jerseys .Its his next outing that everyone will be waiting to see.Strasburg took over the league lead in strikeouts and gave up only two hits through six scoreless innings in his final tuneup ahead of his first post-season, helping the NL East champion Washington Nationals beat the Miami Marlins 5-1 on Saturday.His strength is good. Hes throwing the ball where he wants to, making pitches where he needs to. Typical Stephen of what weve seen all year long, Nationals manager Matt Williams said. I think hes pitching really well. I think hes ready for next week.With shadows stretching across the field after the 4:07 p.m. first pitch, Strasburg (14-11) spotted his fastball at 97 mph and mixed in breaking balls that confounded a Marlins lineup missing the injured Giancarlo Stanton. Strasburg finished with seven strikeouts a€” giving him 242, three more than Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers a€” and one walk.Thats what he used to look like when he was in college, being able to pump it up like that for seven, eight innings, said Bryce Harper, who dashed home and scored on a head-first slide when Strasburg was credited with an RBI on a sacrifice bunt. Stras has been unbelievable for the past month, and pretty much all year long, hes been great. So its a lot of fun to watch.Dating to Aug. 30, Strasburg is 4-1 with a 1.13 ERA, 40 strikeouts and three walks.My arm felt good, Strasburg said. Just went out there and tried to execute pitches. My changeup was working really well and I threw my curveball for strikes when I needed to.Next up will be the playoff debut for the No. 1 overall pick in the 2009 amateur draft. Two years ago, when they also had the NLs best record, the Nationals shut down Strasburg in September to limit his innings as he came back from reconstructive elbow surgery.On Saturday, Strasburg gave up a double to Jeff Mathis, and a single to Casey McGehee on a liner that went off right fielder Jayson Werths glove. That one originally was ruled an error, then changed to a hit.Miamis Nathan Eovaldi (6-14) gave up two runs in seven innings in a game played a day after the Nationals, who are now 95-66, assured themselves of home-field advantage throughout the NL playoffs a€” and a week after the Marlins were officially eliminated from wild-card contention.It was a tough day for us offensively, Marlins manager Mike Redmond said. We didnt get anything going, really.Williams trotted out what might be the lineup for Game 1 of Washingtons NL division series Friday. But he also removed starters starting in the sixth, when Ryan Zimmerman went in to play first base for Adam LaRoche. Zimmerman recently returned after missing 55 games because of an injured right hamstring; he made a fielding error, failing to glove a grounder in the ninth, and singled, making him 5 for 15 since coming off the disabled list.We have to be mindful of his health, first and foremost, Williams said. So if he says, Im a little bit sore, were not going to push him.What Williams hasnt stated yet is what role Zimmerman, who turns 30 on Sunday, will have in the post-season. The way hes been used a€” usually in left field or as a pinch hitter; never at his original position, third base; never starting consecutive games a€” appears to indicate the 2009 NL All-Star could be destined for reserve duty.Asked whether Zimmerman would be on the teams division series roster a€” a question that speaks volumes about where things stand at the moment for a guy with a $100 million contract a€” Williams responded: Unless something happens, yeah. His timing is good at the plate. Hes capable of playing wherever we would ask him to play.UP NEXTNationals RHP Jordan Zimmermann (13-5, 2.78 ERA) starts Sunday, his first outing since taking a line drive off the side of his pitching shoulder last weekend. He faces RHP Henderson Alvarez (12-6, 2.70). Cheap Adidas Kings Jerseys Wholesale Kings Jerseys . -- Michael Phelps is 0 for 1 in his comeback to the pool. http://www.cheaplosangeleskingsjerseys.com/ . This weeks Raptors Report puts a bow on Gays brief, 10-month tenure in Toronto and ponders how his absence will affect the teams offence. Are they a better team without him? In addition to acquiring some valuable cap flexibility, what impact will the four incoming players have this season and beyond? Click here for the Dec.PARIS - His ninth French Open title behind him, Rafael Nadal already is thinking ahead to whats next: Wimbledon. Thats why he planned to waste no time and go directly from France to Germany on Monday to get ready to play in a grass-court tuneup tournament. Nadals collection of 14 Grand Slam titles, only three shy of Roger Federers record for men, includes two championships at the All England Club. But the most recent came in 2010, and Nadals past two trips to Wimbledon were quite brief: He lost in the second round in 2012, and the first round in 2013. "I want to try to play well again in Wimbledon," the No. 1-ranked Nadal declared Sunday night after beating No. 2 Novak Djokovic 3-6, 7-5, 6-2, 6-4 in the French Open final to improve to 66-1 at the clay-court tournament. "Im healthy. Thats the most important thing, I feel." The big question about Nadal always was longevity, and whether his 6-foot-1 (1.85-meter), 188-pound (85-kilogram) body would hold up to the constant pounding from his relentless style. Well, now he is the only man with at least one Grand Slam title in 10 consecutive years. And having turned 28 last week, the Spaniard is roughly two months older than Federer was when he got his 14th major. But Nadal was slowed by a bad back during a loss in Januarys Australian Open final. Of more concern: his knees. He decided not to defend his Wimbledon title in 2009, then was sidelined for the last half of 2012 because of a problem with his left knee. "I hope my knee will have the positive feeling on grass, because I feel my knee (is) better than last year in the rest of the surfaces," Nadal said. "Grass always was a little bit harder for me after the injury." This part of the tennis schedule is unforgiving, allowing two weeks to adjust from clay to grass between the French Open and Wimbledon. That changes next year, when a third week gets added. For now, there is time to contemplate story lines that will matter when Wimbledon starts June 23. Djokovic, for example, will try to set aside hiss latest disappointment in Paris, coming up short again in his bid to complete a career Grand Slam. Cheap Kings Jerseys China. Djokovic has won six major titles — four at the Australian Open, plus one each at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open — but he has lost in the finals at three of the last four Slams. That includes a defeat at the All England Club a year ago, when Andy Murray became the first British man to win the title since Fred Perry in 1936. So Murray would be the centre of attention, anyway, and he gave everyone another reason to keep a close eye on him by hiring former womens No. 1 Amelie Mauresmo as his new coach. The fourth member of the Big Four, Federer, has lost before the quarterfinals at three of the last four Slams, a stretch that began with a second-round exit at Wimbledon. It will also be worth watching how players who had breakthroughs at the French Open follow that up. Ernests Gulbis, for one. Simona Halep, Andrea Petkovic and Garbine Muguruza, too. And then there are a couple of previous Wimbledon winners who followed very different paths in Paris. Serena Williams was the defending champion at the French Open, and departed in the second round, beaten 6-2, 6-2 by Muguruza. Williams vowed to "go home and work five times as hard to make sure I never lose again." After her last early exit at Roland Garros — in 2012s first round — she went on to win Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. Sharapova, meanwhile, earned a second French Open title and fifth major overall, overcoming a dozen double-faults in her three-set victory over Halep in the final. Now its on to Wimbledon, where Sharapova won her first Grand Slam championship at age 17 in 2004. "Even though you always remember those incredible moments of holding that trophy," Sharapova said, "you got to try to erase that from your mind because you got to create new ones." ___ Howard Fendrich covers tennis for The Associated Press. 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