This day in Nationals history

[rileyn]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SDN/SDN200509170.shtml

If it wasn't already obvious throughout the inaugural 2005 season, this late night was when I realized I had a real sickness.  I remember staying up and listening to the game (thanks crappy MASN deal) in my kitchen with the sound turned low so I wouldn't wake everybody, when the Padres rallied from a 5-0 deficit with 2 outs in the 9th to effectively put an end to our season. 

Khalil Freaking Greene hit a grand slam off Chad Cordero to tie after Frank Robinson over-managed the inning, at about 1:30 in the morning.  The Padres later won in the 12th inning dropping us 3.5 games back of Houston for the WC spot.  I didn't sleep one second that night because I kept going back and forth between anger and sadness. That Padres team was managed by Bruce Bochy. 

If I'm honest, that loss still stings a little to this day.  Khalil Greene.  Khalil Greene.  Khalil Greene. 

[tomterp]

That game was a killer. 

[aspenbubba]

That game was a killer. 

No more than the game 5 Storen blew!!! T was depressed for days and I don't believe I was anywhere as close to that miserable when the skins lost 2 of the 4 Super Bowls I attended..

[Optics]

No more than the game 5 Storen blew!!! T was depressed for days and I don't believe I was anywhere as close to that miserable when the skins lost 2 of the 4 Super Bowls I attended..

Yeah I think that Game 5 loss was the most gut punching loss I've ever experienced as a fan across all sports. I legitimately thought we were going to the World Series that year. Still think we would have if Storen could have gotten one more strike....

[tomterp]

No more than the game 5 Storen blew!!!

Hey, I never said it was.  In 2005 it was though. 

[rileyn]

Hey, I never said it was.  In 2005 it was though. 

Exactly.  Game 5 will always be the worst, but in 2005 that was a dagger. 

[tomterp]

Exactly.  Game 5 will always be the worst, but in 2005 that was a dagger.

Right.  Maybe we need a thread for the worst dagger for each season.  Since misery loves company.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Khalil Greene has been known on this board for 11 years as "antichrist"

[Ray D]

Yeah I think that Game 5 loss was the most gut punching loss I've ever experienced as a fan across all sports.

Almost up there with the 1979 season-finale loss to Dallas.  Almost.

[BrandonK]

Right.  Maybe we need a thread for the worst dagger for each season.  Since misery loves company.

2016 will have no such thing!

[RiotAct]

2016 will have no such thing!

Here's hoping !

[KnorrForYourMoney]

I think I was the earliest LOD because I just felt nothing during this game.  I had already accepted that the Nats were going nowhere that year, after looking like crap for 2+ months.  Khalil's home run was just a formality.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

That sold-out July Mets series at RFK was the turning point IIRC.  Then a looooong swoon.     
   

I think I was the earliest LOD because I just felt nothing during this game.  I had already accepted that the Nats were going nowhere that year, after looking like crap for 2+ months.  Khalil's home run was just a formality.