The boys don’t quit. If you’ve listened to Davey Martinez’s post-game pressers at all over the last two seasons, you know that he believes in the Washington Nationals’ willingness to fight even when things aren’t going well.
With the team five games under .500 and struggling to deal with a laundry list of injuries, it would not have been surprising if they folded after what ended up being a five-run seventh for the Philadelphia Phillies last night in Citizens Bank Park, which turned a 5-3 lead into an 8-5 deficit, but instead they buckled down, even with a depleted roster, and put up four in the eighth, then added a run in the ninth in a 10-8 win.