Zimmerman, batting against one of the best relievers in baseball, one out in the eighth inning and his team down 3-1 to the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League wild-card game, is one of only two players left on the Nationals who have lost four playoff series since 2012 – three of them in a Game 5 at home. If October baseball luck toyed with Washington for the better part of a decade, fell into the arms of the Dodgers and Cardinals and Cubs and Giants, this time it came to the Nats' rescue.