The Nationals faced challenges in their series finale against the Red Sox, dealing with ineffective pitching and facing strong competition. They made a surprising decision by starting rookie Shinnosuke Ogasawara on minimal experience. The game started poorly with the Nationals falling behind quickly. Despite strong hitting and opportunities, they struggled to capitalize, leaving 15 runners stranded and only scoring four runs. Despite these challenges, they remained competitive against one of baseball's toughest pitchers throughout the game.
The Nationals faced an uphill battle this afternoon in the final game of this weekend's series with the Red Sox. They had to overcome another ineffective outing from a starting pitcher and had to go up against one of the toughest starting pitchers in all of baseball.
Despite this, the Nationals managed to stay within striking distance all afternoon, even displaying some excellent hitting against Red Sox starter Garrett Crochet.
The good news from the Nats' offense today was that Crochet, a power arm known to overpower opponents with velocity, was unable to do that for most of the day.
Unfortunately, the downside of that is that they were consistently unable to come up with the clutch hit with men on base that would have changed the game.
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