SF Giants oust 96-win Nationals, head to NLCS

[StevieM]

3. I will repeat here what I wrote in the other thread:

And....they screwed up again!! If you are pitching Zimmerman in Game 5, and Strasburg is available, then why not put him in for the 7th?

The Cardinals just won. They beat Kershaw and the Dodgers. And you can't really fault Mattingly for sticking with Kershaw in the 7th, given how well he was pitching. The Cards just went out and beat him. Twice.

But the Nationals beat themselves, at least in part. The Giants are a good team but the Nationals could have won this thing with a couple of common sense decisions.

So I hear Ron Gardenhire is available?

Seriously though....congratulations to your Giants on advancing to the NLCS. They are obviously a team that knows how to win in the post season.

My dad grew up as a die-hard Brooklyn Dodgers fan who hated the NY Giants. It's kind of cool that the rivalry extended to California.