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Squeezed: Nationals 6, Phillies 5

After being officially eliminated from playoff contention on Tuesday afternoon, the Phillies couldn’t have been fired up about having another game scheduled for the evening. Especially since they’d have to face Nationals ace Max Scherzer.

As it turned out, they actually did pretty well against Scherzer. However, thanks to some curious moves by Gabe Kapler combined with an even more curious strike zone, the Phillies fell to the Nationals for the second time in a day, this time by a score of 6-5.

Most of the damage against Scherzer was courtesy of Brad Miller.