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The Washington Nationals season will end today. After the game will begin the process for the offseason. There is still a game to be played today. Yesterday, the Nats needed an ace performance from MacKenzie Gore to bring them their 71st win — and he delivered in a big way. That win tied the Nats with their record from the 2023 season.

In the process, Gore improved his ERA below the 4’s to a very respectable 3.90 for the season. For the month of September in his five starts, he had an incredible 1.26 ERA. For some reason, Gore struggled in June and July with ERAs of 5.13 and 7.62 respectively. Take out those two months, and Gore had a 2.76 ERA in his other four months.

He was MacK the knife, and cut through the Phillies powerful offense like a hot knife through buttah. In his 6.0 scoreless innings, Gore only allowed three hits and one walk. His nine strikeouts set down all the big names from Philadelphia like Harper, Turner, Stott, Castellanos, and Realmuto before the sixth inning then he struck-out all three Phillies in his final frame getting Schwarber, and Turner and Harper for the second time.

The Washington Nationals needed an ace performance from Trevor Williams to bring them the 70th win — and he delivered — again. In the process, Williams lowered his ERA to 2.03 — a Nats’ record, and the Nats were 10-3 in his starts.

Today, MacKenzie Gore takes the mound, and hopefully as MacK the knife. The shark needs to show his teeth to cut through the Phillies and finish his season with more promise.

The Washington Nationals had the Scrappy Nats back yesterday until Kyle Finnegan imploded on the mound and gave up 3-runs to take the loss. The Nats are in a long losing streak and looking for Trevor Williams to bring them the 70th win. We will see if Mother Nature and the Baseball Gods cooperate.

The Washington Nationals just cannot score runs. The offensive slump is now at three consecutive shutouts. Their scoreless streak is at 31 innings. At the same time, the Nats’ starting pitching has allowed only one-run to the Royals in this series.

Today’s starter, Patrick Corbin, is set to make his final start for the Washington Nationals in this salvage game of this series. What better way to go out for Corbin than with an opportunity to pitch a gem for a Nats’ win. Corbin signed a six-year deal with the Nationals before the 2019 season, and along with Tanner Rainey, they are the only two remaining players from the Nats’ 2019 World Series team.

Including today’s game and the postseason, Corbin will start his 173rd game today in a Nats’ uni. But it was his relief appearance in Game 7 of the World Series that earned him a win that Nats’ fans will remember most. Those 3.0 scoreless innings in an early relief of Max Scherzer to hold the deficit at 2-0 until Howie Kendrick‘s heroics was the difference. Corbin’s checkered record in a Nats’ uniform can be viewed through multiple lenses — but the Nats don’t win a World Series without Corbin. That $140 million contract is probably money the Nats were happy to pay for the front-end of it. Always a Nats’ World Series champ.