BALTIMORE — Casey Janssen sat at his locker inside the Camden Yards visiting clubhouse Friday night, a plate of food in his hands, and stared off into nothingness for several minutes. He had made only a brief appearance in the game earlier, but the little dribbler of a single he allowed to Chris Parmalee leading off the bottom of the eighth ultimately led to the tying run scoring, which ultimately led to the Orioles beating the Nationals, 3-2.
Janssen was barely to blame for the loss — he only faced two batters and allowed only the one weak base hit — but what stung most after the game was the feeling the veteran reliever had that he wasn’t contributing to the Nats as much as he or the club hoped.