Rays 2, Nationals 4: Having two eye colors is better than having one

At least we didn’t get no-hit.

On a night when that was a distinct possibility, that was the thought throughout much of the night.

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There are games when baseball makes no sense, and there are times when baseball makes perfect sense. Tuesday night was a prime example of the latter of the two.

The Best Pitcher in Baseball spent most of the night slicing through an offense that has been in the doldrums of late (Rays wRC+ ranks 22nd in baseball over past two weeks). A team that was 22-9 in their previous 31 games was able to defeat a team that had lost four in a row. A pitcher who tossed an (abbreviated) no-hitter in his return from 18 months off the diamond, looked solid, but not bulletproof,…