Matt Williams doesn’t much like talking about big-picture stuff. You’ve repeatedly heard the second-year manager asked about the state of his Nationals this summer, and you’ve repeatedly heard him refuse to take the bait.
But then comes a game like Tuesday night — a game that defied logic given the manner in which the Nationals’ bullpen turned a 7-1 lead into an 8-7 deficit in the horrific span of 12 batters spread among the seventh and eighth innings — and Williams couldn’t avoid answering the big-picture question.
How on earth do you come back from something like this?