Phillies starter Vince Velasquez and four relievers held a banged-up and disappointing Nationals lineup to just two hits in Saturday’s 3-1 Phillies victory. The Nats engineered eight walks in the game, but left eight runners on base and were 0-3 with runners in scoring position. They did, however, put speedster Trea Turner on base in the bottom of the ninth with no outs, a perfectly adequate start for one last long-shot chance at a rally.
And that is when Phillies second baseman Pedro Florimon ruined the Nats with some cool-ass old-school trickery:
