The odds were against the Washington Nationals when they fell to 19-31 on late May. Only eight other teams in MLB history fell twelve games under .500 and made it to the playoffs, but a 74-38 finish to the season made them the ninth, and a win in the National League Wild Card Game, an NLDS victory, and a four-game sweep in the NLCS got the club to the World Series.
Anthony Rendon said last night, after the Nationals’ second straight win over the Astros in Minute Maid Park, that he didn’t care about the odds back then or going into the series in Houston, when a reporter mentioned that the team had a, “.