PHILADELPHIA — A lot happened over the course of seven hours Sunday at Citizens Bank Park, where the Nationals and Phillies engaged in 18 innings of baseball, some of it good and some of it bad and some of it painful.
A doubleheader split — a 3-2 victory in the opener, then an 8-5 loss in the finale — might have left the Nationals feeling like the entire day was a lost cause. Nothing gained, nothing lost.
That may be true in the standings, but the standings felt inconsequential on this day to what proved to be the most important development of the entire afternoon/evening: Another really impressive start by Stephen Strasburg.