Oh, man. When your fourth starter throws a three-hit ball over seven innings you start to have dreams. Yeah, that was Anibal Sanchez on the mound for the Nats yesterday, blanking the first-place Braves as my hometown team moved to 16 games over .500 with 14 to play.

Wasn’t it nice to fly under the radar all summer?

Well, no more. My hopes have been raised officially. (And the longer we can not think about football in this town the better.)

Here we go again.