Ah, offense. I remember it well. To start last night’s contest, the team combined to score 14 runs, while making the first seven outs. This evening? Not so much. Instead, Taylor Widener and Max Scherzer engaged in a classic pitcher’s duel, matching zeroes through the first six innings. It wasn’t quite an equal match. Mad Max was more dominant, holding the Diamondbacks to only one hit the first two times through the order. Kole Calhoun had a single with one out in the first inning. Their only other base-runners came in the fifth, when Scherzer’s usual pin-point control appeared to desert him, and he walked Carson Kelly and Josh Rojas, both with two outs, before K’ing Widener, his seventh strikeout through five.
Diamondbacks 0, Nationals 1: We Don’t Need Another Zero
