WASHINGTON – Washington’s Yan Gomes, with two outs in the last of the ninth, hit a lazy pop-up to right field and ran slowly down to first base as the ball was caught by University of Virginia alum Adam Haseley to end the game.
Bob Henley, the first-base coach for the Nationals, clapped his hands in resignation while third-base coach Chip Hale jogged slowly across the infield to the Nationals’ dugout.
As the Phillies congratulated themselves, the Nationals quietly retreated to the clubhouse as the grounds crew prepared the field for the upcoming series with the New York Mets – though those games will now mean little to the D.