Winning Late in the Game
The hometown Nationals appear to only play two ways. Win late or lose. They won last night, 5-4 in the bottom of the ninth. Catcher Jesus Flores, after going K, K, groundout, K, finished the night 1-5 with a single that scored Elijah Dukes.
The Sports Freak and I attended this game. We saw Tim Redding start yet again. I think I've seen him start 4 times. TSF thinks he's seen all of Reddings home starts this season. We saw him last week. But apparently Redding saved his best performance for last night.
Redding pitched 6 great innings, giving up only two runs before relinquishing his position to the bullpen. the Nats put up 4 runs in support. Saul Rivera came in and pitched a perfect 7th. Then Ayala pulled in to load the bases. Rausch followed and let the Angels score to tie up the game.
Flores finished the night on the right note. You don't expect a 1-5 night for your cleanup hitter, but if that 1 is the game winning hit, it's just right.
There was, unfortunately, no entertainment off the field. We were sitting in our own partial plan seats, so maybe it's because we kind of know everyone around us and they're normal, unlike the oddities on the section we were sitting at last Friday.
