“Seinfeld” superfans will tell you there’s an episode for just about everything, and it seems as though Nationals outfielder Adam Eaton would agree. In a high-leverage at-bat during Saturday’s National League Championship Series Game 2 against the Cardinals, Eaton found inspiration from the iconic sitcom that was famously about nothing.

“Seinfeld” superfans will tell you there’s an episode for just about everything, and it seems as though Nationals outfielder Adam Eaton would agree.

In a high-leverage at-bat during Saturday’s National League Championship Series Game 2 against the Cardinals, Eaton found inspiration from the iconic sitcom that was famously about nothing. Namely, from none other than George Costanza.

Nationals starter Max Scherzer had pitched a gem, carrying a no-hitter into the seventh. But Washington still held a tenuous 1-0 lead when Eaton, 0-for-3 to that point against Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright , dug in against him for a fourth time with a pair of runners on base.

"Everything I was thinking, they did the opposite," Eaton said postgame. "So I was thinking 3-2 [count] should be a heater here, and I'm like, ‘Well, that's the opposite, so I should George Costanza it and just go ahead and sit breaking ball.’ And that's what happened."

The famously down-on-his-luck Costanza tried something new in “The Opposite,” an episode from Seinfeld’s fifth season, deciding to do the complete reverse of everything he’d done before -- from changing his lunch order to openly criticizing Yankees owner George Steinbrenner in a job interview (ultimately landing him the Yankees’ assistant to the traveling secretary position).

Costanza’s approach worked for Eaton, at least for one at-bat. Wainwright indeed went with his trademark hook, and Eaton pulled it down the line for a clutch two-run double.

The insurance runs proved important, as the Cardinals scored a run in the eighth but couldn’t muster any more in the Nationals’ 3-1 win that put them up 2-0 in the series.

“George was right, and I happened to be right,” said Eaton.