Rallying for the cause
With a six-run bottom of the seventh that featured only two hits, the Nationals gave a boisterous crowd plenty of reason to roar
If you didn’t watch Saturday’s game and only knew about the Nationals’ 9-4 win over the Padres via the play-by-play text that pops up on MLB Gameday, you probably wondered how in the world the home team scored six runs in the bottom of the seventh.
The non-descriptive account of that inning shows the Nats recording only two hits (both singles), drawing two walks, getting hit by a pitch and hitting into three fielder’s choices.
That was the highlight of the game? Yes. Yes, it was.
“There was just a lot of good stuff there,” manager Blake Butera said. “I loved the at-bats. But I also just loved the way we played the game. That’s what we want our identity to be.”
