How did the Washington Nationals respond to Monday night’s 4-2 loss in St. Louis, which left them a +0.5-game up on Chicago’s Cubs for the top Wild Card spot and +1.5 over the next-closest team, Milwaukee’s Brewers?
They didn’t panic, fill-in skipper Chip Hale said after the Nats’ 6-2 win over the Cardinals in the second of three in Busch Stadium.
“There’s no panic,” Hale told reporters, “and like I said, once the game’s over last night, it’s a new one today, and same thing tonight, you win, start from zero tomorrow.