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(What do these graphs and percentages mean?)
- He settled in nicely: Joe Ross (+0.2%) gives up 3 runs over 7 IP, fanning six and walking one.
- Scrappy, but also good at baseball: Adam Eaton (+14.7%) singles in a run to tie the game in the 3rd (+9.9%).
- Perfectly coiffed: Bryce Harper (+43.3%) cranks a solo shot to right to get the Nats on the board with two down in the first (+10.2), then follows up with a majestic, two-out grand slam to dead center in the third to put the Nats ahead (+30.5%).
- This is just stat-padding: Ryan Zimmerman (+0.9%) swats his own soaring grand slam the other way in the ayeth to put the game away (+2.0%).
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