At the end of last night’s win over the Phillies, the Washington Nationals celebrated. They stormed onto the field and chased down Bryce Harper—€”congratulating him for his walk-off double that gave the team their 79th win of the season.
Earlier in the evening, however, the New York Mets had had a celebration of their own, and the circumstances could not have been more different. For the Mets, last night was a night of joy and relief as the team clinched their first NL East title in nine years. For the Nationals, last night was a bittersweet example of what could’ve been, had things gone how they were supposed to.