Let me be really plain about this right up front.

This is not about outcomes.

This is not about a result.

Nick York had boomed that baseball all the way to the Strip District for a grand slam.

It still would have been just a mind-blowingly bad decision to have in bat.

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Nationals 5, Pirates 4, last night at PNC.

Park, it didn't have to be that way. It shouldn't have been that way. And it might not have

been that way had Don Kelly not suffered from a serious case of overmanagingitis.

If you missed it, short version, Pires fell behind, 5 to 1, got back into it, made it 5 to 4,

7th inning comes around, bases loaded, one out, and here comes Brandon Lau.

Awesome, right?

In addition to everything else that Lau's done, to date this season, earlier on, he homered

in the same game.

And it shouldn't matter that there was a lefty on the mound for Washington since the

homer was off another lefty.

Here comes gold, licking lips, rubbing the hands.

And Kelly bats for him.

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