Who starts the wild-card game for the Washington Nationals?
At some point, with each successive start in which Max Scherzer is not vintage Max Scherzer, it becomes the obvious question. The obvious answer, of course, is Max Scherzer. Because there's no way manager Davey Martinez (or any other skipper in his right mind) would ever start anybody else.
But at some point, whether it's Sept. 18 (today) or Oct. 1 (the date of the NL Wild Card Game), or some date in between, Martinez has to at least start entertaining the notion that maybe -- just maybe -- the obvious answer isn't the right answer.