As the 2018 season winds down for the Washington Nationals, they still have a say in the National League postseason race. The opposing Colorado Rockies clinched their postseason birth with a 5-2 win over the Nats on Friday night.
Despite the Nationals actually collecting more hits than their opponents, they could only push across two runs. The Nats had 12 hits, and left 21 runners stranded, while the Rockies needed just eight hits to score their five runs, all of which via the long ball.
Among those 21 stranded runners, the Nats managed to leave the bases loaded twice in the first three innings.