The Capitals are opening their season tonight after Pittsburgh takes an hour and a half to hoist some cloth thing. However, back at home the Nationals are sending out Max Scherzer to win Game 5 and send them into the NLCS where they would have a date with the Chicago Cubs.
In summary, my attention is going to divided like no other, this live blog isn’t going to have the format that you probably remember from last season because it may involve baseball activity, but it will return to normal eventually. Let’s go win multiple sports ball games by multiple runs/goals.
Go teams and go live comments.
Pre-Game
Dusty's line of the day: Asked about keeping Scherzer from getting too amped up, "What are you going to do? You can't give him a Valium."
— Mark Zuckerman (@MarkZuckerman) October 13, 2016
No surprises in #Caps morning lines: 8-92-77, 65-19-90, 82-20-14 and 26-83-43. Defense is: 27-2, 9-74 and 44-88. Holtby in goal.
— Mike Vogel (@VogsCaps) October 13, 2016
Look who is in the building tonight.
https://twitter.com/mpstuart16/status/786707681973239808
Yea some boring stuff happened. No one cared.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO pic.twitter.com/hE1cvgGKJv
— Ian Oland (@ianoland) October 14, 2016
First Period
Bura from Backy. 5-hole SCOAR.
Andre Burakovsky scores a minute into the game. What a pass by Nicklas Backstrom! pic.twitter.com/RhiWSn1XmJ
— Ian Oland (@ianoland) October 14, 2016
Pittsburgh dude does stupid stuff, goes to box.
Braden Holtby just got run over behind the net by Tom Kühnhackl pic.twitter.com/HXM9TDWT1x
— Ian Oland (@ianoland) October 14, 2016
Nats are up 1 early.
Danny Espinosa singles to RF! Murph dances around the tag! #Nats 1, Dodgers 0 #OnePursuit pic.twitter.com/lZi1qcP0Rc
— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) October 14, 2016
We up 1-0 in both sports. Leggo.
Second Period
Holtby robs Sestito.
https://twitter.com/CapsGoalies/status/786740568474824704
1-1 game on this cheap one.
That sure did look above the crossbar pic.twitter.com/vN90706OkA
— Ian Oland (@ianoland) October 14, 2016
Yea whatever 2-1 Pens.
https://twitter.com/myregularface/status/786747528318517248
Williams murdering Malkin.
Justin Williams tackling Evgeni Malkin #hockey pic.twitter.com/f8QxKNpHZj
— Ian Oland (@ianoland) October 14, 2016
That period was sloppy and sucked. We cant finish, they get two garbage goals. 2-1 Pens.
Third Period
Dre Dre is bae bae. 2-2.
nice drop pass from Backstrom pic.twitter.com/xcPgGXS8PU
— Stephanie (@myregularface) October 14, 2016
This isn’t good.
And Joc Pederson homers on Max Scherzer's first pitch of the 7th. And the entire tenor of this game has changed dramatically.
— Mark Zuckerman (@MarkZuckerman) October 14, 2016
Both teams lost. The Caps will be fine. The Nats won’t. GG no re.
