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In an amazingly fortuitous bit of happenstance, the Nats managed to clinch their NL East crown in Atlanta, against their longtime tormenters, on a night when the Braves had scheduled a country music concert, allowing the Nats to have some musical accompaniments to their party. Via Kilgore:

Crushed Miller Lite cans and corks littered the floor. Someone yelled, “Let’s go outside!”… The party spilled out to the field. Players stood in front of their bench and watched country singer Cole Swindell. Scott Hairston danced on the warning track with his two sons. Ross Detwiler and Stammen leaned against the dugout railing and guzzled Bud Lights. They laughed as the laser lights illuminated their faces, soaked and too happy to care how they would feel in the morning…. Not long after, all around Strasburg, teammates swayed and sang along. They belted out the lyric: “The heart don’t forget something like that.”

While partying on the Braves field, the Nats managed to take a few photographs to commemorate the occasion. Were they Respecting the A? One can only hope.

Nats stepping out for Cole Swindell. pic.twitter.com/Zn7F2oUgAz — Yeast 'n' Stuff (@PracticalWalri) September 17, 2014