(Adam Dunn can't get his glove on Nick Evans' pinch hit double in the seventh inning. The eventual game winning run scored on the play. Screengrab of TV/MASN by Nationals Enquirer staff.)
"It's a game of inches. When you're winning games, those things go your way. And when you're not winning games, they don't seem to go your way. A right-handed hitter hitting a ball against a left-handed pitcher down the first-base line? You might see that two or three times a year. That's about it."
(Jim Riggleman, via NatsInsider, 9/8/2010)
Mets 3, Nationals 2: Livo's a tough-luck loser again (11th loss). Late addition to the lineup Wilson Ramos ties the game in the fifth with his first career HR. Congrats, kid.
And Danny Espinosa came thisclose (six ft.?) to a game-tying home run in the ninth, but the ball went foul, despite a fan down the left field line waving the ball fair:
(Screengrab via MLB.com)
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