Trea’s cycle and his penchant for having four stolen bases within the first three innings. Werth’s comeback homer. Bryce’s almost MVP season. The Ryanaissance. Bryce and Zim both hitting grand slams in the same game to get the first ones ever at SunTrust Park. Rendon’s MVP-quality season, the three homer, 10 RBI game. Taylor’s emergence, the grand slam, the inside the park grand slam, the outstanding defensive plays he kept making. That Wieters walkoff of the O’s. The excitement of having Eaton and Turner as a 1-2. Howie hitting everything when he first came over, his walkoff grand slam. Difo filling in as an every day guy and proving himself capable of taking on a regular role. Goodwin’s emergence. Lind’s first plate appearance as a nat, a homer that won them the game, and that he just kept doing that. Robles’ first at bats and the triples. Stevenson getting a chance because the entire outfield died and looking half decent. De Aza actually doing stuff every now and then somehow. Scherzer’s first homer, almost his third no-hitter, that time he struck out nine Dodgers in the first three innings, when he demanded the ball and struck a bitch out with it, when he had that run where he kept getting double digit Ks and almost flirted with 300, how it should be another Cy Young season. Strasburg’s homers, his CGSO in which he scored the winning run, his mindboggling postseason performance. Gio coming so close to a no-no. Roark finding his game again after the All-Star Break. EJax doing an admirable job filling in. Albers’ emergence. Enny’s fastballs. Koda starting to look really good before he Syndergaard’d himself. Kintzler’s grounders. Madson in the eighth inning. Doolittle blowing all of one save and making us feel safe in the ninth inning even if there wasn’t a 10-run lead. Those insane, run-filled games at Coors. Nearly sweeping that Cali road trip. Having four starters at the All-Star Game. All those double digit run games. Not getting shutout forever. Being the first team to clinch, just over a month ago.

And it was all. For. Fucking. Nothing.

99 wins. Because why would they get another one.

I wouldn’t trade those six months for anything. Except another four games. That just never seem to come, no matter how good the season.

I’m sad.