Witness to a Wild One – 13-12 Revisited of this Nats win in Philly!

What a win. I can’t rank it, but at least I can say I was there. No way did I expect the Nationals to win. Is that Gerardo Parra? Is that the influence of other players who have been through it and have the hunger, like Schwarber and Castro, or newer players like Harrison who haven’t, or team leaders like Trea? I can’t say. This is what by boy Nick and I saw…

What stays with me from watching the game at field level was the comparative defense, patient hitting, and how it made a difference, and the effort to come back from not only a deficit, but such a deflating one. So this is what I saw: Continue reading

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The Nats shock the city of Philadelphia with a classic come-from-behind win x 2!

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The Washington Nationals won this game by a final score of 13-12 but how they got there sounds like a whole lot of fiction, but it is all true. The team mounted two come-from-behind charges in this game.

When the Nats dug themselves into a 5-run hole and clawed back to tie it just to fall back to a 4-run hole, it felt like deja vu all over again. This time was different. The team would never give up in this one. There were four hits in this game that drove in big runs.

The game was tied with a 5-run fifth inning courtesy of Kyle Schwarber who smashed an oppo 3-run home run. Then the Nats fell behind again to a 9-5 deficit and then took the lead for the first time with a 6-run sixth inning on a 2-run single by Trea Turner followed shortly afterwards on an oppo grand slam by Josh Bell to go up for the first time in the game by a score of 11-9.

But then the Nats had a blown save in the eighth inning to fall behind 12-11. It was an Alex Avila sacrifice bunt to move two runners up so Starlin Castro could hit the game winning single in the 9th inning for the final scoring at 13-12 that was officially made a win after Paolo Espino recorded his first save. Continue reading

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Game #71 the Nats need Erick Fedde to come up big today!

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After the completion of this game, the Washington Nationals will be just 10 games until the halfway point in the season. This game will create some separation in the NL East. It is a depleted NL East as each team is dealing with injuries. Yesterday, the Nats asserted themselves as a contender in an NL East that is struggling to stay above the level of mediocrity, and mostly because of the injuries. Continue reading

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Max Scherzer bests the Phillies and Joe Girardi!

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Few games will have as much drama as we saw tonight as Max Scherzer bested the Phillies top pitcher Zack Wheeler to get the Washington Nationals a big win. There is now a 3-way tie in the NL East for second place between the Nats, Phillies and Braves, and each team is 4.0 games behind the NL East leading Mets. The beauty is the Mets and Braves are playing each other again tomorrow then the Mets and Phillies play four games this weekend. If the Nats continue to win, they will make some big moves up the NL East ladder. Continue reading

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Game #70 has the Nats in Philly with Max Scherzer’s return to the mound!

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With his 10-days on the injured list served, Max Scherzer returns to the mound tonight for the Washington Nationals. After he hurt his groin, the 3-time Cy Young star pitcher for the Nats, had to go on the IL and get better. He is having one of the best seasons of his career, and will pitch in Philadelphia which happens to be one of his favorite stadiums to pitch in, as he has a 6-1 record there with a 2.45 career ERA and a 0.898 WHIP.  Continue reading

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Nats Travel to Philly Trying to Keep on Rolling

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The Nats series against the Mets was “a pivotal series” and the Nats came up big! Now what?

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The difference a week makes. We wrote in the State of the Nationals address a week ago that the team would need to take care of business with the Pirates and the Mets in the past week and go 18-9 leading up to the All-Star break to really cement themselves back into the race in the NL East, and they really took care of business going 6-1 this past week. The team was 7 ½ games from 1st place and are now 5.0 back.

By the strong showing this past week, the Nats are another good week away from making the teams in front of them, look over the shoulders. Now if the team from D.C.  can go at least 12-8 until the All-Star break, they will really be in the pennant race and buyers at the trade deadline. Continue reading

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Kyle Schwarber goes yard 3 times for a huge win!

Winner’s Circle of Juan Soto, Gerardo Parra, and Victor Robles; Photo by Andrew Lang for TalkNats

The Washington Nationals have now inserted themselves as legitimate contenders in the NL East by taking down the first place Mets in 3 of 4 games this weekend. While the Nats are 5.0 games behind the Mets after this Nats’ win, this lead is surmountable, and the Nats have 93 games remaining in the season to chip away at that lead. Continue reading

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Game #69 on Father’s Day that has proved special before against a NY team!

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The Washington Nationals get to host another Father’s Day game. It was exactly 15 years ago when the Nats took down a 1st place New York team with Ryan Zimmerman‘s first career walk-off home run. Now Mr. Walk-Off has eleven of those in his career, and there might not been a more exciting moment than the walk-off homer. Continue reading

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A 6-0 laugher almost got away; Jon Lester wins his 1st with power from Schwarber and Trea!

Winner circle by Marlene Koenig

The Washington Nationals split this doubleheader today, and are a win away tomorrow from legitimately being back in the pennant race. The Nats won 6-2, but the bullpen had to be pushed because the Mets had two runners on-base in the final inning of a 6-2 game, and this was because Jon Lester came out for a Manfredian complete game in this 7-inning abridged version.

Lester was just two batters into the 7th inning with his longest outing of the season and gave up a 2-run home run. Wander Suero came into the game and quickly put two runners on-base so manager Dave Martinez kind of created the situation and had to go to his closer who quickly saved the win. Continue reading

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