On Saturday night in Miami it was Washington Nationals’ reliever Fernando Rodney, the 42-year-old, 17-year veteran, who imploded, giving up three doubles, one single, a walk, and a total of four earned runs before he was lifted from a 4-4 game after 27 pitches, 17 of them strikes, with just one out recorded.
Stephen Strasburg tossed seven scoreless against the Fish, but was up to 109 pitches after a long-ish, 27-pitch seventh which ended his outing, with Rodney taking over.
Fortunately for the Nats, they scored six runs in the tenth inning to win a second straight in Marlins Park.