Today at 5 p.m. ET, the Washington Nationals and San Francisco Giants take the field for NLDS Game 3 action live from AT&T Park in San Francisco. The game can be live streamed here. Washington fans can hear all of the action on WFED 1100 while San Francisco fans can do the same on KNBR 680.
Washington is on the brink of elimination after losing two games at home and will try to bounce back against the Giants' best pitcher while San Francisco is looking to advance to the NLCS for the third time in the last five years -- with the other two seeing them win the World Series in 2010 and 2012.
Doug Fister (16-6, 2.41 ERA) takes the ball for the Nationals with the season hanging in the balance while Madison Bumgarner will man the mound for the Giants after finishing with an 18-10 record in the regular season with a 2.98 ERA. Bumgarner is coming off of a complete-game shutout of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the NL Wild-Card game where he notched 10 strikeouts.
The Giants took a 3-2 victory in NLDS Game 1 on Friday and followed it up with a 2-1 victory in 18 innings Saturday night in Game 2.
Fister is 3-1 with a 2.08 ERA in 15 October games, all with the Detroit Tigers, and will now look to help Washington avoid its second NLDS disappointment in three years. The Nationals will look to become just the sixth team out of 46 to come out of an 0-2 hole and win the best-of-five since its inception in 1995.
"It's definitely a benefit with having some experience," Fister said via MLB.com. "But it just comes down to executing, and that is a big thing."
San Francisco is being careful about looking too far ahead.
"We are confident with Bum on the mound on Monday," Giants first baseman Brandon Belt, the hero of Game 2, told MLB.com. "Definitely not taking it for granted. We have seen teams come back down from 0-2 and win the series. "
Belt never would have received his shot to be a hero had third baseman Pablo Sandoval not tied the game in the ninth inning off of Drew Storen while simultaneously extending his postseason hitting streak to 13 games in a win that also clinched the 10th straight postseason triumph for the Giants.
Sandoval is 2-for-12 in the series with a double and RBI while Belt is 3-for-11 with one homer and three RBI.
The Nationals will try to get their bats going as first baseman Adam LaRoche, outfielder Bryce Harper and catcher Wilson Ramos each went 0-for-7 in the Game 2 marathon.
The Nationals look to avoid being swept away while the Giants hope to punch their third ticket to the NLCS in five years when they take the field this afternoon at AT&T Park in San Francisco.
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