INTERVIEW – CHELSEA JANES – Washington Post Nats reporter to recap the epic Nats game last night

• The Nationals’ season is over.  They lost to the Chicago Cubs in Game Five of their National League Division Series last night at Nats Park. The Nats were eliminated in the NLDS for the fourth time in six years.
• Fifth-inning fever: How the Nationals’ season unraveled in a matter of minutes. (USA Today) – WASHINGTON – Thirty-eight baseball players participated in Thursday night’s Game 5 of the National League Division Series, Chicago Cubs and Washington Nationals who collectively played tens of thousands of innings leading to this, an elimination game in the prime of their athletic careers. And it’s likely none of them ever witnessed a season-turning half-inning like Thursday’s top of the fifth, a fever dream within a 4 hour, 37 minute hallucination of baseball at Nationals Park.