{"id":46773,"date":"2022-08-16T07:17:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T07:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/enhanced-box-score-nationals-5-cubs-4\/"},"modified":"2022-08-16T07:17:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T07:17:52","slug":"enhanced-box-score-nationals-5-cubs-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/enhanced-box-score-nationals-5-cubs-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhanced Box Score: Nationals 5, Cubs 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Well that game certainly wasn&#8217;t worth dividing my attention between the Cubs and the &#8216;Better Call Saul&#8217; series finale \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Even after blowing an early lead thanks to shoddy defense \u2013 their first unearned runs in what feels like a long time \u2013 the Cubs managed to tie things up late thanks to a Nick Madrigal double and Seiya Suzuki single:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>They had a chance.  But Nelson Cruz took Brandon Hughes deep in the 8th (Hughes has been so good lately I can&#8217;t say much about him), and that was the decisive blow.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Stroman wound up getting bounced in that four-run Nationals fifth inning, not so much because of anything he did, but because he was twice let down defensively on the infield.  So the inning just dragged on. <\/p>\n<p>On the positive side, Mark Leiter Jr.  sure wants folks to notice he&#8217;s still quite good in these kinds of short-burst, multi-inning outings.  I&#8217;m not 100% convinced he won&#8217;t be retained on the 40-man this offseason. <\/p>\n<p>Ian Happ went deep twice, and Franmil Reyes even hit a run-scoring triple:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>Man, Carl Edwards Jr.  sure is pitching well for the Nationals this year, eh?  Good for him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"1376\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bleachernation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aug-15-box.jpg?resize=560%2C1376&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-316511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bleachernation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aug-15-box.jpg?resize=560%2C1376&#038;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/www.bleachernation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aug-15-box-122x300.jpg 122w, https:\/\/www.bleachernation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aug-15-box-417x1024.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Full box score.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well that game certainly wasn&#8217;t worth dividing my attention between the Cubs and the &#8216;Better Call Saul&#8217; series finale \u2026 Even after blowing an early lead thanks to shoddy defense \u2013 their first unearned runs in what feels like a long time \u2013 the Cubs managed to tie things up late thanks to a Nick &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/enhanced-box-score-nationals-5-cubs-4\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enhanced Box Score: Nationals 5, Cubs 4<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58188,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/happ-makes-history-twice-brewers-hate-cubs-steeles-lower-back-manrod-returns-alzolay-estrada-and-other-cubs-bullets\/","url_meta":{"origin":46773,"position":0},"title":"Happ Makes History Twice, Brewers Hate Cubs, Steele&#8217;s Lower Back, ManRod Returns, Alzolay, Estrada, and Other Cubs Bullets","date":"August 27, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"It's one of THOSE Saturdays, where every kid has some activity(ies), so the head is on a swivel. It's always tricky this time of year, because there's also a game, and there are several non-Bullets things I'm hoping to get to today. We'll see what I can pull off \u2026\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":50874,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/cubs-8-brewers-7-a-morel-victory\/","url_meta":{"origin":46773,"position":1},"title":"Cubs 8, Brewers 7: A Morel victory","date":"August 20, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Now that was a fun baseball game! That could have been said even if the Cubs had lost it, but it was entertaining regardless. There were five lead changes and five home runs hit on a windy day at Wrigley, and in the end Christopher Morel's two-run homer in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":47691,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/enhanced-box-score-cubs-7-nationals-5\/","url_meta":{"origin":46773,"position":2},"title":"Enhanced Box Score: Cubs 7, Nationals 5","date":"August 17, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"It took 11 innings, but the Nationals eventually gave it up and the Cubs managed to win this one, with Patrick Wisdom and Seiya Suzuki playing hero. Heck, Suzuki had come within an eyelash of ending the game the inning before with a rocket throw to home plate. All's well\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bleachernation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aug-16-box.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":41651,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/enhanced-box-score-cubs-4-nationals-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":46773,"position":3},"title":"Enhanced Box Score: Cubs 4, Nationals 2","date":"August 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, so I'm a little annoyed that my five-leg parlay came exactly one Seiya Suzuki hit short of paying off (and he was HBP in his final at-bat, which was just brutal). BUUUUUT the Cubs won the game and the series, so that's a nice consolation prize \u2026 I guess!\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bleachernation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Steele-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6213,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/injury-updates-suzukis-ridiculous-bat-ortega-swarmer-bryant-and-other-cubs-notes\/","url_meta":{"origin":46773,"position":4},"title":"Injury Updates, Suzuki&#8217;s Ridiculous Bat, Ortega, Swarmer, Bryant, and Other Cubs Notes","date":"July 6, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"There is still just so much sadness from the events on the 4th. And a lot of feelings of helplessness. Tough to shake, in part because I don't *want* to just shake this away, but I don't know what to do with the feelings. So I baseball \u2026 If you\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":57753,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/enhanced-box-score-cubs-4-brewers-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":46773,"position":5},"title":"Enhanced Box Score: Cubs 4, Brewers 3","date":"August 27, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Well that sure got exciting late, after a slow start! For much of the game, we were just watching two starting pitchers dominate the other's bats. Freddy Peralta no-hit the Cubs through his six innings, and although Justin Steele had more traffic on the bases, he kept pitching through it.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bleachernation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aug-26-box.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bleachernation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/enhanced-box-score-feature-new-900.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}