Even if they did have a flawless inning on defense, that game was not theirs. They still needed to score at some point and then hold the Nats as well. It does suck but every team can look back at games throughout the year and say "what if?". There is no need to ruin a night or a weekend on it, especially when they get another chance to get a win tomorrow barring bad weather. The 162 games is the beauty of baseball, you almost always get a chance to redeem yourself tomorrow. That would be comforting if I didn't think this type of game WILL happen again to this team. Roenicke seems to love micro-managing, but some of the stuff just doesn't make any sense whatsoever. The shifts I can deal with, I would hope there is some data to support them. I do agree with you about his PHers and lineups being a little off sometimes. That's what I was referring to when I said I hope RR learned something from today's loss. I wasn't a huge fan of CC PHing instead of Nyjer at that point in the 9th.