Credit the Nats where it’s due: they took a lost season and are still playing into mid-October. To keep playing, they’ll need both Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg to dominate the next two games — not to say they can’t, but it’s a tall task with these Dodgers. They shouldn’t have to, though — since last offseason, the Nationals have tried to take other team’s scraps at a bargain bin price and mold them into a formidable bullpen. It’s clear that their lack of reliable arms will, ultimately, do them in — if not in this series, then certainly in the next one, when Scherzer and Strasburg can’t come out every night.
Wire Taps: Patrick Corbin implodes; Max Scherzer goes tonight; Nationals facing elimination yet again...
