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Ronald Acuna benching latest twist in drama-filled NL East

I love the National League East. If they gave a daytime Emmy Award for best soap opera of 2019, it would have to go the NL East. We have Bryce Harper, bullpen problems up and down the division, managers on the hot seat, cold spells, hot streaks, Pete Alonso mashing, Ronald Acuña Jr. hitting home runs and robbing home runs and stealing bases ... and, on Sunday, not hustling and turning an extra-base hit into a single and a caught stealing.

We'll get to Alonso and the wildness the past two days in D.