The Nats Thread (old thread link inside, too many load issues)

[Warhead36]

The tie breaker should be head to head record(which we would win)but baseball insists on playing these stupid ass tie breaker games, so the magic number is still two.

My prediction was that we'll clinch on Monday with a win at home vs. Philly and I'm sticking to it, although I'd love to clinch today so we could rest some of our vets and set up our rotation better.

[hail2skins]

The tie breaker should be head to head record(which we would win)but baseball insists on playing these stupid ass tie breaker games, so the magic number is still two.

My prediction was that we'll clinch on Monday with a win at home vs. Philly and I'm sticking to it, although I'd love to clinch today so we could rest some of our vets and set up our rotation better.

The way they have the NLDS formatted this year where the lower-seeded team gets to start at home makes the whole thing screwy. So if the Nats and Braves tie at the end of the season, they'd play one game to determine who has to do the wild-card game at home (likely against the Cardinals), and then winning that would give you two more playoff games at home to start the NLDS.

I'd like for the Nats to clinch the division this weekend as well, but if they don't, it would be cool for them to clinch in front of the home crowd against the Phillies. Especially since there's a very real chance that they could come home in the NLDS down 0-2 and facing elimination, which would be a real buzzkill, IMO, for anyone going to that game.

And what about the situation in the American League? Nobody has even clinched a playoff spot yet, correct? How many tie breaker games are going to have to occur before the postseason starts in the AL?

[HogNose]

My prediction was that we'll clinch on Monday with a win at home vs. Philly and I'm sticking to it, although I'd love to clinch today so we could rest some of our vets and set up our rotation better.

I say they clinch tonight....the champagne is ready to go. Go Mets!

[skinfan2k]

Game 1 if nats are #1 is the same day as Redskins game on Oct 7.

My thinking is that the game starts at 4 because if we are playing ATL. i highly doubt they would want to put the falcons vs redskins and the braves vs nats at the same time

[Monk4thaHALL]

Homerun

[STBonecrusher21]

Grand slam for beast!

Being reviewed now.

[StillUnknown]

Should be a grandslam for Morse after they review this.

[boysetsfire]

lolololol what the hell was that?!

[StillUnknown]

that was odd, they made Morse run the bases in reverse

[Sticksboi05]

Grand slam BEAST MODE

[Monk4thaHALL]

Man it should be 8 runs with how many bases Morse touched

[HogNose]

Grand Slam....now come on Mets!

[STBonecrusher21]

1-0 Braves...

[Dan T.]

I loved Morse's pantomime swing when they made him go back to home plate. What the hell was that? It was hilarious is what that was. Is Morse getting hot at just the right time? If so... hoo boy.

[skinfan2k]

Michael Morse has 2 grandslams in one inning :P