A feel-good night for some Nationals who needed one
Drew Millas and Miles Mikolas were among the stars of a 15-2 drubbing of the Twins, a welcome performance for the struggling batterymates
There was a point during tonight’s 15-2 blowout win when every hit the Nationals recorded off the Twins felt like a big hit.
A Drew Millas homer in the fifth. Three straight doubles from CJ Abrams, Brady House and José Tena, then a triple from Nasim Nuñez in the sixth. A homer from House in the seventh. A double from Millas, a grand slam from Abrams and a solo homer from Tena in the eighth.
That’s nine extra-base hits by the Nats over the final four innings of this game, each subsequent hitter trying to outdo the guy who batted before him.
“I think today was more of a momentum thing,” Millas said. “You could feel it. CJ was going. Tena was going. Brady got his hit, and he also hit a nice one off a righty. So it was good to feel the momentum, and it was really contagious, to be honest.”
Now the craziest part of it all: The Nationals did absolutely nothing at the plate through the first three innings of this game. They sent nine men up to face Bailey Ober, and all nine returned to the dugout disappointed, only one of them having so much as hit the ball out of the infield.
