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| Jose Lobaton is congratulated after homering. |
All I can say is wow. What an electric day to Nats Park. Nerves were running high with fans. The first three innings the Nats not been on. The Dodgers loaded the bases twice. But the Nats were able to get out it. The Nats loaded the bases too but failed to score any runs.
Things started out the way they did in game one with the same Dodger player hitting a home run. In the third the Dodgers got another run. Then came the bottom of the fourth:
The breeze that gusted in from left field Sunday afternoon hit the Washington Nationals with cruel reality as Jose Lobaton stepped to the plate in the fourth inning of Game 2 of the National League Division Series.The Nationals added a run in the 5th when Trea Turner scored. Harper was sent but was thrown out. But the wind (and it was windy) played a factor in Harper being out. The wind pushed the ball back toward home plate so the Dodger player didn't have as far to throw if there'd been no wind.
Their aces had struggled. Their offense had faltered. Their weaknesses had been exposed, and their strengths sat dormant. Los Angeles Dodgers starter Rich Hill, who had not been good enough to make their roster in 2015, was good enough to embarrass them with curveball after curveball. A cross-country flight and a two-game deficit loomed. Then Lobaton, of all people, took a mighty swing. The ball flew high to left, and curses flew around the dugout because almost everyone thought the wind was sure to knock it down.
But Lobaton’s blast sliced through the breeze and landed in the Dodgers’ bullpen, giving the Nationals their first lead of the series. The script flipped on that swing, which lifted them to a 5-2 victory that was preserved by their bullpen, which did some postseason script-flipping itself.
I was concerned at that point. Oh would that come back to haunt the Nats as it had in the past in playoff games. But in the 7th another insurance run was added when Jayson Werth scored.
This is only the second home playoff game the Nats have won in seven tries. And the first win I've seen. It was just amazing.
NATS WIN!
NATS WIN!
NATS WIN!
NATS WIN!
NATS WIN!
NATS WIN!
NATS WIN!
NATS WIN!
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