The Eastern League All-Star team was selected on Wednesday with no Senators on the 13-man post-season All-Star team. In July, three Senators were picked to play in the EL All-Star Game in New Hampshire.

RHP Marco Estrada, who opened this season with the Harrisburg Senators, delivered two scoreless innings in his major-league debut Wednesday night for the Washington Nationals against the Philadelphia Phillies. Estrada was promoted to Washington on Monday.

When Senators’ pitcher Bobby Brownlie was selected by the Chicago Cubs in the opening round of the 2002 First-Year Player Draft, he had every reason to figure his career would be measured by the degree of success he would soon be enjoying at Wrigley Field and ballparks elsewhere at the major-league level. Armed with a 97-mph fastball he could blow past hitters almost at will, an outstanding college career on his resume and a $2.5 million signing bonus in the bank, how could Brownlie possibly have thought otherwise?