Trent Grisham stood at his locker and faced the music, blaming himself for the dramatic and heartbreaking NL wild-card loss to the Nationals Tuesday night.

The rookie outfielder, whose error enabled the Nationals to take the lead in their three-run eighth inning, said he felt like he handed them a spot in the NL Division Series.

“It’s going to sting. It’s going to sting for a long time,” he told reporters. “Essentially gifting the Nationals a divisional berth. It’s going to hurt. And I expect it to hurt cwhen I debrief and go into the offseason.”

It was commendable and impressive for a rookie to own such a mistake. But was he really to blame? It was Brewers closer Josh Hader who coughed up a two-run lead, who inherited a 3-1 advantage in the eighth inning and loaded the bases, unable to retire light-hitting pinch-hitter Michael A. Taylor or Ryan Zimmerman. It was Hader who allowed Juan Soto’s two-run single that tied the game, the play in which Grisham let the ball get past him, enabling a third run to score.

“At the end of the game, when getting down to six, five, four outs to go, of course you feel all that pressure,” said Grisham, who was in right field with reigning NL MVP Christian Yelich recovering from a fractured kneecap. “It’s exciting. You want to live in those moments and live up to those expectations.

“I don’t think it got to me at all. I just ended up making an error. It’s not my first. It’s not going to be my last. It just happened that way.”

There was no guarantee the Brewers win the game after the Nationals tied it. Yes, Grisham gave them the lead with that error, but Hader blew the save, and that’s really where the problems started for Milwaukee.