Nats in, Brewers blow it

The Nationals will now be in the REAL playoffs (against the Dodgers)

“Washington’s Juan Soto delivered a bases-loaded single against Josh Hader that scored three runs with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning, and the Nationals rallied to beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 in the NL wild-card game Tuesday night.”

It is always difficult for the wild card team after the play-in game. First, they have to face the toughest opponent. Second, they often have to use their best pitcher to get there. In this case the Nats had to use their best TWO pitchers! On the other hand, they have all kinds of confidence right now, having won 10 of their last 11.

5 thoughts on “Nats in, Brewers blow it

    1. So I was supposed to root against my locals on account of their manager? Not bloody likely.
      Admittedly I would have preferred for them to have hired Bud Black.

      1. I was in the same boat as a diehard Reds fan. Baker made such bizarre, frustrating decisions over the years that eventually he inspired a new phrase: “stubbornly mindless.” He put hopeless losers such as Drew Stubbs and other fast runners in the outfield, batting them leadoff, believing speed equals winning… guys who batted near the Mendoza line the whole season, and Baker would leave them in for YEARS until he finally succumbed to pressure to boot them one at a time… then replace with with another stereotype like that, i.e. Billy Hamilton. Thank goodness Baker is out of baseball.

  1. Having been on the wrong rooting side of the Drive, the Fumble, Jose Mesa, Bill Buckner, the Reggie Jackson interference, Jim Barnett, the Germans beating Cruyff’s “total football”, and Dusty Baker apparently sleeping through an interference call two years ago, I loved it.

  2. One of the most brutal losses in playoff history. They lose on a 2-out, 3-run base hit in the 8th inning by a 20-year-old kid, with stunning help from a rookie outfielder who made the cardinal sin of looking up at the plate & preparing to throw while not yet having fielded the ball, resulting in it going under his glove. It reminds me of the Bengals vs Steelers in an NFL playoff game a few years ago, another stupid-mistake game: Bungles had the game won with a minute left, until Vontaze Burfict knocked out Antonio Brown with a helmet-to-helmet hit that put the Steelers in FG range & directly cost them the game & playoffs.

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