Game 5 WPA: Countdown to 100 losses at 96. Nats 2, FF 3

Via Fangraphs. (What do these graphs mean?)

• MOAR GRAONDURZ: Doug Fister (+34.9%) throws 6.1 scoreless with 1 K, 1 walk, and some jams narrowly escaped.
• Buffalo power: WIlson Ramos (+2.5%) was tonight's fleeting source of hope, with a 4th inning solo shot to put the Nats ahead (+14.7%).
• Bridge: Matt Thornton (+10.8%) finishes the 7th to hold the two-run lead and earn a shutdown.
• Bridge collapse: Blake Trienen (-36.5%) gives up the game-tying runs, with only Harper's perfect throw to Espinosa to home to gun down the go-behind run (+17.4%) saving him from utter disaster, although not from a meltdown.
• Pretty, steely eyes: Craig Stammen (+12.0%) sends it to extras by striking out the side in the 9th after giving up a leadoff double to earn a shutdown.
• WPA can't punish Henley, instead? Michael Taylor (+7.0%) is 1-4, walking and stealing second in the 10th before Yunel Escobar (-13.7%) gets punished for him getting thrown out at home (-8.7%).
• And there's the final g04+: Tanner Roark (-38.0%) has the last meltdown of the night, only getting one out before giving up the losing run on two hits in the 10th.

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