George bracket: 2017 Nationals sweep 2017 Yankees

Game 1: Nationals 2, Yankees 1 (13 innings)
WP: Albers (3-0)
LP: Betances (1-1)
HR: S Castro (3)

Game 2: Nationals 9, Yankees 8
WP: Kintzler (1-0)
LP: Chapman (0-2)
HR: Goodwin (1), Sanchez (8), Harper (3), MA Taylor (4)

Game 3: Nationals 5, Yankees 0
WP: Gonzalez (4-1)
LP: Sabathia (1-1)
HR: Zimmerman (7)

Game 4: Nationals 4, Yankees 3 (10 innings)
WP: Kintzler (2-0)
LP: Kahnle (1-1)
Save: Doolittle (3)
HR: Judge (9), Hicks (1)

The vaunted New York bullpen suffered repeated meltdowns in the four games as the Nationals won three of the contests in their final at-bats.

The series opened in Washington with Max Scherzer (eight innings, four hits, 11 strikeouts) and Luis Severino (7.1 innings, three hits, 10 strikeouts) matching goose eggs. Their relievers followed suit until the 13th, when Starlin Castro hit a two-out homer off Matt Albers, in his third inning of relief, With Arodis Chapman and David Robertson having already been used, the Yankees used Dellin Betances in the bottom of the inning. Pinch-hitter Howie Kendrick singled. After Trea Turner popped up, Betances walked Bryce Harper, Anthony Rendon and Daniel Murphy (with a wild pitch mixed in) in succession to tie the game. With Ryan Zimmerman at the plate, Harper then scored the winning run on a passed ball charged to Gary Sanchez.

That pitchers duel was followed by Game Two's slugfest. Masahiro Tanaka was pretty good for five innings (one run allowed) but Betances and Adam Warren each allowed three runs in one inning of work apiece. The Yankees scored four runs off Jacob Turner in the sixth and two more in the ninth off Matt Grace to take an 8-7 lead, but Chapman allowed singles to Harper and Rendon in the bottom of the inning followed by Zimmerman's two-out two-run double.

Gio Gonzalez took a two-hit shutout into the ninth of Game Three in Yankee Stadium, while Zimmerman hit a two-run homer and Matt Wieters chased home two runs with a double. Gonzalez walked the leadoff man in the ninth, and Brandon Kintzler entered to get three outs from two hitters, Aaron Judge and Sanchez, to end it.

The Nats wrapped up the series with another extra-inning win in Game Four. Wieters doubled in three runs in the second inning. Judge hit a two-run homer for New York in the third off Stephen Strasburg, and Aaron Hicks a solo shot in the fifth to tie the game at three. It remained 3-3 into the 10th. Tommy Kahnle walked Jayson Werth to open the inning, then allowed a single to Michael A. Taylor, advancing Werth to third. Betances entered and got a popup and a strikeout before walking Harper and Rendon to plate the go-ahead run. Sean Doolittle worked a perfect bottom of the 10th with a pair of strikeouts to end the game and series.

Player of the Series: Matt Wieters

Projected rotation: Scherzer-Gonzalez-Strasburg-Rourke-(Scherzer)-(Gonzalez)-(Strasburg)