We're still hanging on!

Thanks to an amazing comeback that seemed completely beyond their capabilities, the Nationals remain in the Wild Card Race, if only tenuously, three games back of the Astros.

On a night when another one of the Nationals' big three starting pitchers didn't have it, the bullpen saved the day. Esteban Loaiza gave up six runs in six innings on ten hits, but Jason Bergmann, Gary Majewski, and Chad Cordero shut down the Braves in the seventh, eighth, and ninth to keep it close and then preserve the win.

Down 6-3 in the seventh, the Nats started their comeback with a two-out Vinny Castilla homer. That made it 6-4. In the eighth, Church and Guzman walked and Jamey Carroll advanced them with a sacrifice bunt. Brad Wilkerson then doubled both of them home to tie it at 6. Baerga walked and then was replaced as a runner by his alter ego--Kenny Kelly. Jose Guillen then doubled both Wilkerson and Kelly home and the Nationals had scored four to make it 8-6.

A four-run inning is so out of character for this team that every Nats fan had to think the game was over going into the seventh. But every time they seem to be one loss from being out of the race this team finds a way to get back into it. Yes, we know that they're not likely to win the Wild Card, but they're still in it in mid-September, which is pretty amazing if you ask us.