I watched through 5...didn't believe Gio could make ALR's 3-run homer last out to a win. Conclusion: never predict that Gio is down and out. Never. The Nats can field and the bullpen is great.
Woohoo!!!!!!!!
If you young'uns will forget 2007, 08, 09 etc, I'll forget 1955 - 1968 (minus 1960, which was special).
These Nats are a whole different class of Washington team. Glory! And for the folks who remember 1971, and 1961, and 1957: isn't this fun? Some like the Nats teams my Dad grew up with in the late '20s and early '30s. Shirley Povich once wrote that the "First in war, first in peace, last in etc" was a stale vaudeville joke that make no sense after Clark Griffith, "The Old Fox", was hired to manage the team about 1912 or 1913.
For Clark, and Walter Johnson, and Sam Rice, and Goose Goslin, and Joe Judge. And George case, Mickey Vernon, Cecil Travis, Buddy Lewis, Walt Masterson, the kid Early Wynn (my fingers don't want to type that, because I remember Wynn pitching for the White Sox when he was 40 years old.)
Old Griff ran out of money about the time that MLB adopted farm teams. He couldn't compete, just like Connie Mack. But from about 1913 to about 1941, the Nats were nothing to sneer at.
Neither is this team.
