Matt Williams was as happy with Ian Desmond's eighth inning single on Thursday as he was with Desmond's two-run home run earlier in the game. Desmond doesn't care. "I don't really discriminate on hits," he said.
In the bottom of the eleventh inning on Wednesday night, Ian Desmond connected with a first-pitch fastball from Atlanta Braves' right-hander David Aardsma, sending a fly ball to left field for a walk-off sac fly that followed four trips to the plate in which the struggling shortstop was 0 for 3 with a walk.
"He stayed on a slider away," Washington Nationals' manager Matt Williams said after the Nats' 2-1 win.