Strasburg Pitches Nationals to 3-0 Lead Over St. Louis

The Washington Nationals are one win away from making the World Series. Three starting pitchers in a row have destroyed the bats of the St. Louis Cardinals. Anibal Sanchez, Max Scherzer, and Steven Strasburg have given up one earned run in 27 innings of baseball in this National League Championship Series.

Game three was an 8-1 rout as the Nationals’ bats warmed up with Victor Robles and Howie Kendricks leading the way. Robles is back in centerfield and responded with a home run while Howie Kendricks had three doubles all gappers hit to the wall. Kendricks tied a major lead record for hitting three doubles in a post season game.

Maybe it’s destiny. Maybe it just took awhile for the team to jell under manager Dave Martinez. Maybe the best team in the National League just peaked at the right time.

It’s a beautiful thing to watch though when a baseball team peaks at just the right moment in post season play.

Most will say the Houston Astros are the best team in baseball this season. They very well could be as they have two starters of their own in Gerrit Cole and Justin Verlander who are at times unhittable.

We’ll just have to wait and see if both of these loaded pitching staffs advance to the World Series.

But first things first. The Washington Nationals are one game away from the fall classic after almost being eliminated in the one game wild card game against the Milwaukee Brewers.

All of this is a great diversion for me. The Sooners, the Green Bay Packers, and the Washington Nationals are giving me something to write about sports wise on my blog in this impending season of NBA tanking by the Oklahoma City Thunder.

The Nationals started the season 19-31 then went thirty games over. .500 the rest of the season. The big push started in August as the Nats grinded out the best two last months of any team in the majors. Here’s Steven Strasburg after a so-so 7-4 win over the Reds with his post game thoughts in August.