...And Whoever's Playing the Nationals

[Centerfield]

2 outs. Winning run on 2nd. Someone named Pham up.

[Guest themetfairy]

Holy Crap - The Cardinals win on a walkoff 3-run homer!

[Centerfield]

BRANDON MOSS HR. NATS FUCKING LOSE.

[Gwreck]

Thanks, Brandon Moss!

[Centerfield]

High 5 metfairy! For staying up with me!

[Guest themetfairy]

Centerfield wrote: High 5 metfairy! For staying up with me!

[Centerfield]

8-5 is your final. 8-5 was your final last night. Both soul-crushing types of losses.

Remind me, what was the final score of game 7 in 1986?

[MFS62]

I can live with a Cards win, especially THIS one.
(yeah, I'm still up, too)

Later

[Zvon]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Mets � Willets Point wrote: I'm sorry, but I just can't root for the Cardinals. See, I don't understand this. Of course you can. The Mets need the Cards to beat the Nats. It's as simple as that. Where are your priorities? The Cardinals are evil and they always fucking win and nothing good comes of rooting for them. I have nothing against the Nats other than they're in the same division. I have a deep-seated loathing for the Cardinals.

lol. Everyone should have their own evil team so I guess I do understand. Mine happens to be the Phils. I don't think I can say loath, or anything deep-seated, just from suffering Phils Nation down here in NJ.

So the Nats don't pick up anything after this nightmare of a game. HA! Thats team suckage!

[Centerfield]

Nats were up 4-0 in this game.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

A loss when you're chasing first and time is running out? Well, that stings.

A possible win that you lost via errors or bullen leakage, when you're in the same situation? It knocks the mental wind out of you.

[Lefty Specialist]

Man, on a night where they get the stuffing kicked out of them by the Phillies, their magic number goes down.

Nats boards are hovering somewhere between suicidal and homicidal.

[Edgy MD]

And the Jays won on walk-off shot also.

[Lefty Specialist]

Nats-Cards is the ESPN game tonight, so you can get your schadenfreude in real time....

[seawolf17]

Centerfield wrote: 8-5 is your final. 8-5 was your final last night. Both soul-crushing types of losses. Remind me, what was the final score of game 7 in 1986?

You know what's funny... I was thinking about 1986 watching the game the other night where the Sox scored two in the top of the tenth to make it 5-3. I thought, "hey, this looks familiar." (Then they scored a sixth run and my whole plan went to crap.)

[Benjamin Grimm]

Cardinals, trailing the Nationals 3-2 in the seventh have just tied the game on a single by Wong.

[Guest themetfairy]

Tie Game!

[Zvon]

Cards tie it up!

3-3 7th

[Centerfield]

Just heard that Harper left the game because his ass hurt.

[Zvon]

Centerfield wrote: Just heard that Harper left the game because his ass hurt.

I heard because he was an asshat.

Nats retake the lead, 4-3, and they might not be done. Escobar trying hard to get tossed but he can't, he sucks.

[Gwreck]

Papelbon finally pitches in the 9th. You don't think there's a chance that...

[Zvon]

LETS GO CARDS!


*ducks as Willets hurls a bottle in my general direction[fimg=10]https://lukasliquorstl.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/willet-single-barrel-straight-rye-whiskey.png[/fimg]

[Gwreck]

Tying run on 3rd, winning run on 1st. 1 out.

[Chad ochoseis]

1st and 3rd, one out!

[Gwreck]

Bad job, Tommy Pham. You can't strike out with the tying run on 3rd and one out. You have to make contact.

[Zvon]

Gah. It would have been nice.

[MFS62]

4-3
Bad guys.
The Cards had three runs on 16 hits!!
That's not the Cards we have come to know over the years.
Yech!

Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

It looks like next week's series in Washington will have Niese, Harvey, and deGrom as the starters.

Monday would be a good day for Niese to snap out of whatever funk he's been in.

[Gwreck]

Terry apparently told Niese that his start against the Nationals is the biggest game of his life.

I guess Terry forgot that Niese pitched during the final week of the 2008 season against the Cubs (I'd like to forget that game - the Jason Marquis grand slam, in particular - as well) but his description is close enough for me.

[HahnSolo]

The Braves are comically bad at this point. But no better time to snap out of their 8-losses in a row, 15-out-of-16 funk than with a set of four in the nation's capital.