"This is the craziest. Yeah, this is the craziest," Nationals manager Dusty Baker said when asked where this game ranked among the wildest he'd been a part of. "We always say: Go to the ballpark, you always see something you've never seen before. Well, I certainly hadn't seen anything like this. This was crazy."
Heisey's home run capped one of the craziest games of the season, one that featured a Bryce Harper game-tying homer, a key bunt single by a relief pitcher and several replay reviews. Brian Dozier launched a go-ahead three-run homer in the eighth inning, but Harper tied the game in the ninth with a pinch-hit blast to right-center. The teams traded scoreless frames for five innings before Miguel Sano drove in the go-ahead run in the 15th. But Washington responded with a walk, a stolen base and an Oliver Perez bunt that induced a throwing error, allowing the game-tying run to score. An inning later came Heisey's homer.
