“We just like to compete and we showed it,” Church said. “When it comes to heart, we are up there. It goes to show that it starts with the manager. It shows what kind of team we are. We battle. We are not giving up, we are not packing it in. We have an opportunity to make the Mets or the Phillies join us for the offseason. We don’t know. It could be the Mets or the Phillies.”

And, Tim Brian’s column today at Yahoo Sports says Manny should be a runner up for Manager of the Year.

Manny Acta, Washington Nationals. They didn’t lose 110 games. Or 100 games. They might not even lose 90. That qualifies as a monumental (D.C. reference) achievement, if not by the Nats’ front office, then by the guy who convinced the players they didn’t have to be total disgraces. Acta sent 13 different starters to the mound, many of them not as good as the original five, the reason for the dire spring predictions, and the Nationals are about to have their second winning month in the last three.

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