Given an 8-0 lead to work with after three and a half in the series finale with the San Diego Padres in Petco Park, Washington Nationals’ ace Max Scherzer imploded in what ended up being a 45-pitch bottom of the fourth in which he was charged with seven earned runs, 8-7, and Tommy Pham’s two-out RBI double in the bottom of the sixth tied it up at 8-8.
It stayed tied until the ninth when Trent Grisham, remember him, hit a walk-off winner to earn a split for the home team in the four-game set.