HOUSTON — The script ended in predictable fashion. When you’re talking about these Washington Nationals, it’s about that triumphant ending — their backs to the wall, their prospects grim, until they aren’t.
Yes, when you’re talking about the Nationals, it’s often the usual suspects in the cast, too. Like Max Scherzer playing through pain. Like Anthony Rendon, the MVP candidate, and Howie Kendrick, one of the most clutch hitters of the 2019 postseason, turning a game upside down with seventh-inning home runs when hope was running short.
After season upon season of playoff shortcomings, the Washington Nationals won their first World Series with an epic, come-from-behind 6-2 victory in Game 7 over the Houston Astros Wednesday night that made the improbable dream a reality.