Game One, Nationals at Cardinals, 5:08 PM PDT, TV: TBS
RHP Aníbal Sánchez goes for the Nats while RHP Miles Mikolas pitches for the Cards.
Game Two, Nationals at Cardinals, 1:08 PM PDT, TV: TBS
Two veteran righties take the mound in this game: the Nationals’ Max Scherzer and the Cardinals’ Adam Wainwright. Scherzer went seven innings in Game Four of the NLDS, giving up just one run. Wainwright pitched Game Three of the other side of the NLDS, giving his team 7 2/3 innings of scoreless ball.
Game Three, Cardinals at Nationals, 4:38 PM PDT, TV: TBS
The Cardinals ask their second-half ace RHP Jack Flaherty to stop the Nationals’ express. The Nats counter with RHP Stephen Strasburg. Flaherty threw six innings of one-run ball in the Cards’ Game Five blowout of the Braves. Strasburg gave up two early home runs to the Dodgers in the Nationals’ own Game Five, but gave them no more in six innings.
Game Four, Cardinals at Nationals, 5:05 PM PDT, TV: TBS
The Nationals are on the verge of a sweep, leading the series 3-0. Tonight they’ll pitch LHP Patrick Corbin, who started one game in the NLDS and relieved in two others against the Dodgers. The Cardinals hand the fate of their season to RHP Dakota Hudson, who went 4 2/3 innings in Game Four of their series against the Braves, giving up four runs (only one earned).
Not Hendley? https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/status/1184307361374187523?s=20
Not Hedy Lamar?
Hedy Lamarr would absolutely ace analytics.
https://twitter.com/nicadispatch/status/1184306829624561664?s=20
Goodness me. 7-0 after one inning. The Cards have run into a buzz saw.
My Nat fan friends invited me to tonight’s game. One said that they were sorry about our loss, but I countered that baseball means never having to say you are sorry. They actually spent much of the early season crying on my shoulder, with me consoling them and assuring them that the Nats were not a bad as they looked. Frankly, I have been doing this since June of last year, when they all wanted to fire the manager and breakup the team, including seeing what the team could get for Max. Don’t see anything fluky in what they are accomplishing, as they and the Dodgers had the best records in the NL since May.
Are you there?
Yep, but the Nats just sucked the drama out of the game. All that is left is the delirium of the fans.
The drama is back!
Nats are steamrolling the Cards.
Where’s the Nats’ reliever Daniel Hudson been since the NLDS? On paternity leave in Scottsdale.
If the Nats keep this up (6-0 in the sixth) I’m going to call them a team of destiny and feel better about the Dodgers giving up three home runs to them in the 8th inning and beyond.
I was thinking the same thing! We played them a lot harder than the Cards are doing.
Washington DC needs something to feel okay about these days…
Mild card teams will never be legitimate, and I’ll only acknowledge an AL team that manages to win three games in the NL park.
I hope our guys watch these batters and learn…
When a team is hot, it’s hot!
Howie Kendrick is unreal. Who we needed AJ to be…
Back in the day our other AJ used to come up big in the playoffs. In 17 games he had OPS 1.065!
Man, the Cards’ manager is waiting way too long to pull Flaherty. He’s given up four runs through three innings.
My great friend Jimmy is a Nats fan. We had lots of friendly and commiserating back-and-Forth’s during the NLDS. When the Nats won I congratulated him but told him I felt very sad for Kersh and couldn’t believe it was Howie Kendrick who put the nail in the coffin. Thursday I got a beautiful blue and white flower arrangement from the florist with the card-“Xxoo Jimmy and Howie.” So now I of course have to root for the Nats to go all the way.
Bribery occasionally succeeds!
Seriously, what a nice surprise.
A nice gesture, but I still can’t work up enthusiasm for any of these teams. There are individual players I like, but not enough to watch them in such circumstances.
The Ringer ranks the worst playoff losses for the last decade, and then sums up the total futility and agita.suffered Guess who comes in first?
No wonder I get so wound up every October…
Heh.
ALCS Game Thread above. I’m using this post for all the NLCS games and will use the ALCS one the same way.
Understandable but disappointing – still a more than capable utility player. https://twitter.com/jorgecastillo/status/1183067892486524928?s=20
After the Dodgers exited the post-season unexpectedly early, I decided not to watch a single pitch the rest of the season. I will see if I can follow through. I don’t think I am bitter, although I am greatly disappointed about what transpired. It is more a case of being simply disinterested. I have no rooting interest in any of the four teams remaining. In any event, I expect the Astros to roll both the Yankees and whoever represents the NL easily and lose no more than four games combined in the two series.
I cancelled my youtubetv subscription so there’s no temptation at home. I have briefly glanced at Gameday and, when we stopped at a neighborhood taquería last night I couldn’t avoid the screen as we ordered. We ate outside, though. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0cac558c3508645cd76422cdb3fb5f33904d9f5ce4535d709743ad94d4f71ed7.png
Rooting for the Nats. Sanchez pitched well against the Dodgers as well.
Since my son and daughter in law are big Nationals fans, I guess I am one as well, temporarily.
Hmm. Sánchez is pitching an “interesting” game.
I am rooting for him!!!!
I hope it stays interesting all the way to the end.
Games with mild card teams are never interesting.