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When the umps stopped the Nats’ first scheduled game against the Yankees on May 15 because of rain, little did they know what havoc they had wreaked on my 18-gamer. With the score tied at 3-3, the game won’t be completed until June 18, much to the disappointment of some famous fans.
But with five innings complete, the stats for that partial game are “in the books” as Charlie Slowes would say. And the stat site that matters, at least for my purposes (i.e., Baseball-Reference.com) says the Nats have played 54 games. So their record in the third 18 game set stands at 12-5, with one game unfinished, or as I’ve seen in a few places – 12-5-1.
What is this, soccer?
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