{"id":16164,"date":"2019-09-25T10:48:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T14:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=16164"},"modified":"2019-09-25T10:48:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T14:48:11","slug":"nats-clinch-a-remarkable-comeback-is-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=16164","title":{"rendered":"Nats clinch: a remarkable comeback is complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6017\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RendonAnthony-Nats-Official-via-espn.com_.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6017\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6017\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6017\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RendonAnthony-Nats-Official-via-espn.com_-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"Rendon; the unsung hero. Photo Nats Official via espn.com\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RendonAnthony-Nats-Official-via-espn.com_-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RendonAnthony-Nats-Official-via-espn.com_.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rendon; the unsung hero. Photo Nats Official via espn.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I posted in this space at the end of May a post called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=15813\">If we&#8217;re waiving the white flag..<\/a>.&#8221; , which led to a rather spirited debate as to whether the team could even rebound.<\/p>\n<p>Well, here we are at the end of September, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/see-moment-nationals-knew-clinched-025125491.html?src=rss\">team has clinched a wild Card spot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Arbitrary endpoints for this team:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/boxes\/?date=2019-05-23\">May 23rd<\/a>: 19-31: 2nd worst record in the NL (trailing only Miami)<\/li>\n<li>Since?\u00a0 67-38; best in the NL.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my mea culpa; I lost hope in this team in May.\u00a0 I gave up.\u00a0 I cannot believe they turned around the season so well.\u00a0 \u00a0They&#8217;re still going to lose the division by 10 games, but they made it to the coin-flip game.<\/p>\n<p>We won&#8217;t know the particulars of the WC game; is it going to be here or on the road?\u00a0 Is it going to be against Milwaukee (likely) or will the reeling Cubs or floundering Mets pull a rabbit out of their hat to advance (not likely).\u00a0 So I&#8217;ll save predictions and analysis until we know who and where we&#8217;re playing.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to the team for making it to the post season in a trying year ahead of (likely) an off-season of transition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted in this space at the end of May a post called &#8220;If we&#8217;re waiving the white flag&#8230;&#8221; , which led to a rather spirited debate as to whether the team could even rebound. Well, here we are at the end of September, and the team has clinched a wild Card spot. Arbitrary endpoints [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16166,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16164\/revisions\/16166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}