WASHINGTON — As it drizzled outside Sunday morning, Phillies officials gathered in the visiting clubhouse for multiple meetings with representatives from the Washington Nationals and Major League Baseball. Everyone agreed on the objective.
“If we’ve got a window for a couple hours,” interim manager Rob Thomson said shortly before 11:30 a.m., “then we’d go [play].”
And if they were going to wait for however long it took for that opportunity to arise, the least the Phillies could do was drench the Nationals, 8-1, in a rain-shortened, six-inning game and move to the brink of clinching the last National League wild card.
