There is a film showing of a 90-minute documentary at the
Anthem theater on the Anacostia waterfront in Washington DC tonight, titled “The
2019 World Series Documentary”. DVD’s
are supposed to go on sale Tuesday, Dec. 3.
I didn’t get around to getting to this, but I did find a
14-minute Tube by MCQ37 Highlights, “Washington Nationals: Team of Destiny,
2019 Mini Movie”. The film shows the
highlights of the disappointments in the playoffs in 2012 (I remember the top
of the ninth when the Cardinals scored 4 runs after a borderline call of ball
four with 2 outs), 2014, 2016, 2017.
Then it races through the 2019 season, after Bryce Harper went
to the Phillies, and the Nats were 19-31 after the first fifty game. The film shows the highlights of a 12-10 home
win against the Marlins, and the Nats would go 74-38 for the rest of the season
(finish 93-69), including winning the last 8 games and a 5-game sweep at home
against the Phillies. Including the playoffs they would finish 86-43 from that
point.
The film rushes through the World Series, where the visiting
team won all seven games. The critical win might have been game 2, when the
Nats scored 5 gift runs in the top of the seventh after an infield fumble and
then a broken-bat hit. Good teams pounce on little mistakes, particularly when
on the road.
They do show Kyle Kendrick’s slicing homer off the foul pole
to put the Nats ahead in game 7.
It will be interesting to see if they can keep both Stephen
Strasburg and Anthony Rendon. High-average
hitters like Rendon have the ability to make time slow down (from the brain’s
perspective) so they can hit the ball – it seems genetic. Animals, especially cats, can do this when
hunting prey.
Here’s another video, about opening day of the 1955 season at
Griffith Stadium, when the Senators beat the Orioles 12-5, but would lose the
next day in Yankee Stadium 19-1, and would finish the season 53-101. But they would go 13-9 against the Cleveland
Indians that year (and against Boston the next year). In 1959 they would endure
their 18 game losing streak.
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