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The Lead

The Nationals' Amazing Comeback Season

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🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

A heart attack scare, a badly broken arm, and the loss of a franchise player were not enough to keep the Washington Nationals from clinching a wild card berth this season. The Nats became just the third team in more than 30 years to make the playoffs after being 12 games below .500. The Athletic's Brittany Ghiroli joins us to talk about how they pulled off their incredible turnaround -- and danced a lot along the way.


Read Brittany Ghiroli’s behind-the-scenes story on the wild 36-hours behind the Nats playoff-clinching series:

https://theathletic.com/1237960/2019/09/25/a-wild-36-hours-behind-the-scenes-of-the-nationals-playoff-clinching-series/?source=theleadpodcast


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0:00.0

So we've got a big weekend in baseball coming up, Kavita.

0:08.5

We do.

0:09.5

You know, we've got the five teams, five playoff teams in the National League set.

0:14.5

And we're still looking to see which three teams in the American League are in a capture

0:18.4

of those two wild card spots.

0:20.5

And you've been keeping an eye on the Brewers who have really been creeping up on the Cardinals

0:23.5

here.

0:24.5

Yes.

0:25.5

And man, the Brewers are the most exciting team in baseball to me right now.

0:27.6

We're getting of the month.

0:28.6

They were basically left for dead.

0:30.2

And now they've won seven straight.

0:32.9

They're a game back of St. Louis for the division.

0:35.2

They've already clinched a at least a wild card spot, but they could actually come back

0:38.5

and take the National League Central.

0:39.8

It's pretty great to watch.

0:41.3

And so today we're going to look at one of those playoff bound teams that you just mentioned

0:44.9

because they have had one of the most incredible turnaround seasons, maybe ever.

0:50.7

Yeah.

0:51.7

Just like we're talking about the Brewers being left for dead at the beginning of September,

0:56.0

everybody counted out the Washington Nationals back in May.

0:59.4

And the comeback that they've made has been really, really remarkable.

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